William Butler Yeats Quotes

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

William Butler Yeats

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• I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Water