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Lonely Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
- Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
- Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
- An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do…
- A lonely impulse of delight
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