Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,
That long to give themselves for wage,
To shake their wicked sides at youth
Restraining reckless middle-age.
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On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Agitation Against Immoral Literature
by W. B. Yeats
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