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Yeats, W B - Selected poems - The White Birds
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011804
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W B Yeats – from Selected Poetry
from The White Birds
I am haunted by numberless islands, and many a Danaan shore
Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more,
Soon far from the rose and the lily, and fret of the flames would we be,
Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea