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William Butler Yeats - The Folly Of Being ComfortedWilliam Butler Yeats - The Folly Of Being Comforted
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ONE that is ever kind said yesterday: "Your well-beloved`s hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her eyes; Time can but make it easier to be wise Though now it seems impossible, and so All that you need is patience." Heart cries, "No, I have not a crumb of comfort, not a grain. Time can but make her beauty over again: Because of that great nobleness of hers The fire that stirs about her, when she stirs, Burns but more clearly.  O she had not these ways When all the wild Summer was in her gaze." Heart! O heart! if she`d but turn her head, You`d know the folly of being comforted.
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