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Yeats, W B - Selected poems - Vacillation
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W B Yeats – from Selected Poetry
from Vacillation
My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table top
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness
That I was blessed and could bless