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VI

by W. B. Yeats

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Her Courage
When her soul flies to the predestined dancing-place (I have no speech but symbol, the pagan speech I made Amid the dreams of youth) let her come face to face, Amid that first astonishment, with Grania’s shade All but the perils of the woodland flight forgot That made her Dermuid dear, and some old cardinal Pacing with half-closed eyelids in a sunny spot Who had murmured of Giorgione at his latest breath⁠— Aye and Achilles, Timor, Babar, Barhaim all Who have lived in joy and laughed into the face of Death.

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