Yeats

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    I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
    Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
    And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
    Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
    And the young lie long and dream in their bed....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    O heart! O heart! if she’d but turn her head,
    You’d know the folly of being comforted.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I bear a burden that might well try
    Men that do all by rule,
    And what can I
    That am a wandering-witted fool
    But pray to God that He ease
    My great responsibilities?
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)