William Butler Yeats

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    Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind,
    That loved his learning better than mankind,
    Though courteous to the worst; much falling he
    Brooded upon sanctity....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    And God would bid His warfare cease,
    Saying all things were well;
    And softly make a rosy peace,
    A peace of Heaven with Hell.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    No expectation fails there,
    No pleasing habit ends,
    No man grows old, no girl grows cold,
    But friends walk by friends.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears
    Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes,
    And then the clash of fallen horsemen and the cries
    Of unknown perishing armies beat about my ears.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)