William Butler Yeats

“ Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
And Usna's children died. ”

“ He made the world to be a grassy road
Before her wandering feet.
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