William Butler Yeats

Ireland
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet

Land of Heart's Desire
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
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The Land of Heart's Desire, 1894


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