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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
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.