William Butler Yeats Quotes

And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

William Butler Yeats

• Morning
• Cricket
• Dropping
• Veils

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• And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Morning
  • Cricket
  • Dropping