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Yeats, W B - Selected poems - The New faces
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011813
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W B Yeats – from Selected Poetry
The New faces
If you, that have grown old, were the first dead
Neither catalpa tree nor scented lime
Should hear my living feet, nor would I tread
Where we wrought that shall break the teeth of Time.
Let the new faces play what tricks they will
In the old rooms, night can out balance day
Our shadows rove the garden gravel still
The living seem more shadowy than they