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Yeats, W B - Selected poems - Vacillation
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001820
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W B Yeats – from Selected Poetry
from Vacillation
A tree there is that from its top most bough
Is half all glittering flame and half all green
Abounding foliage moistened with the dew;
And half is half and yet is all the scene;
And half and half consume what they renew,
And he that Attis' image hangs between
That staring fury and the blind lush leaf
May know not what he knows, but knows not grief