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Bones Quote by William Butler Yeats

“A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if…” quote by William Butler Yeats
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“A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set...”

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