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Into the Twilight
By William Butler Yeats (18651939)
O
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
Laugh heart again in the gray twilight,
Sigh heart again in the dew of the morn.
Dew ever shining and twilight gray;
Though hope fall from you and love decay
Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun and moon and hollow wood
And river and stream work out their will;
And time and the world are ever in flight,
And love is less kind than the gray twilight,
And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.