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In the Firelight

by W. B. Yeats

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Come and dream of kings and kingdoms, Cooking chestnuts on the bars⁠— Round us the white roads are endless, Mournful under mournful stars.

Whisper lest we too may sadden, Round us herds of shadows steal⁠— Care not if beyond the shadows Flieth Fortune’s furious wheel.

Kingdoms rising, kingdoms falling, Bowing nations, plumèd wars⁠— Weigh them in an hour of dreaming, Cooking chestnuts on the bars.

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