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In a Drawing-Room

by W. B. Yeats

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Around the twitter of the lips of dust A tossing laugh between their redness ’bides⁠— With patient beauty yonder Attic bust In the deep alcove’s dimness smiles and hides.
Two spirit things a man hath for his friends: Sorrow that gives for guerdon liberty, And joy, the touching of whose finger lends To lightest of light things all sanctity.

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