We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are de… - William Butler Yeats

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We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish symbolist poet, dramatist and mystic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He compiled the Oxford Book of Modern Verse.

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Alternative Names: W. B. Yeats • William Yeats • W.B. Yeats • WBY

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And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?

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I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words.

THOUGH you are in your shining days,
Voices among the crowd
And new friends busy with your praise,
Be not unkind or proud,
But think about old friends the most:
Time's bitter flood will rise,
Your beauty perish and be lost
For all eyes but these eyes.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died? - William Butler Yeats

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