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William Butler Yeats Quotes: Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.
         

Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.


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