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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

William Butler Yeats
Beautiful, Time, Enemy
The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

William Butler Yeats
Valentines Day, Time, Moon
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" l. 19 (1899)

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

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Time, Men, Elderly
"Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

William Butler Yeats
Lonely, Time, Loneliness
William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

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Time, Children, Past
William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin

What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.

William Butler Yeats
Time, Knowledge, Love Is
William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.137

My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

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Time, Fire, Chairs
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

William Butler Yeats
Time, Oxen, Behinds
Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 4

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

William Butler Yeats
God, Time, Oxen
Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 4

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