The Author William Butler Yeats

The Realists

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    Hope that you may understand!
    What can books of men that wive
    In a dragon-guarded land,
    Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
    Sea-nymphs in their pearly waggons
    Do, but awake a hope to live
    That had gone
    With the dragons?

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