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A Man Young and Old（六）
2023-12-06VI His Memories We should be hidden from their eyes， Being but holy shows And bodies broken like a thorn Whereon the bleak north blows， To think of bu...
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A Man Young and Old（七）
2023-12-06VII The Friends of his Youth Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it， And when the moon‘s pot-bellied I get a laughing fit...
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A Man Young and Old（八）
2023-12-06VIII Summer and Spring We sat under an old thorn-tree And talked away the night， Told all that had been said or done Since first we saw the light， And...
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A Man Young and Old（九）
2023-12-06IX The Secrets of the Old I have old women‘s secrets now That had those of the young； Madge tells me what I dared not think When my blood was st...
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A Man Young and Old（十）
2023-12-06X His Wildness O bid me mount and sail up there Amid the cloudy wrack， For Peg and Meg and Paris‘ love That had so straight a back， Are gone awa...
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A Man Young and Old（十一）
2023-12-06XI From ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span； Cease to remember the delights of youth， travel-wearied ag...
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The Hour Before Dawn
2023-12-06A cursing rogue with a merry face， A bundle of rags upon a crutch， Stumbled upon that windy place Called Cruachan，1 and it was as much As the one stur...
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The Dolls
2023-12-06A doll in the doll-maker‘s house Looks at the cradle and bawls： ‘That is an insult to us.’ But the oldest of all the dolls， Who had ...
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A Dialogue of Self and Soul
2023-12-06I My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair； Set all your mind upon the steep ascent， Upon the broken， crumbling battlement， Upon the breathless ...
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In the Seven Woods
2023-12-06I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods Make their faint thunder， and the garden bees Hum in the lime-tree flowers； and put away The unavailing ou...