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William Butler Yeats - A Man Young And Old: VII. The Friends Of His YouthWilliam Butler Yeats - A Man Young And Old: VII. The Friends Of His Youth
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Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon`s pot-bellied I get a laughing fit, For that old Madge comes down the lane, A stone upon her breast, And a cloak wrapped about the stone, And she can get no rest With singing hush and hush-a-bye; She that has been wild And barren as a breaking wave Thinks that the stone`s a child. And Peter that had great affairs And was a pushing man Shrieks, `I am King of the Peacocks,` And perches on a stone; And then I laugh till tears run down And the heart thumps at my side, Remembering that her shriek was love And that he shrieks from pride.
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