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I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Loss, Lakes
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 10 (1893)

Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.

William Butler Yeats
Spring, Lying, Loss
William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

William Butler Yeats
Fashion, Song, Loss
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

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