William Butler Yeats Quotes

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

William Butler Yeats

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• Prayer
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• I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Death
  • Prayer