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As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

William Butler Yeats
Men, Ephemeral, Tablets
William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.328, Hayes Barton Press
As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.