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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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This page presents the quote "The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.". Author of this quote is William Butler Yeats. This quote is about feet, time, years, black, god, oxen, broken, passing, world,.