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I	A
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I walk through the long schoolroom questioning	B
A kind old nun in a white hood replies	C
The children learn to cipher and to sing	B
To study reading books and histories	D
To cut and sew be neat in everything	B
In the best modern way the children's eyes	C
In momentary wonder stare upon	E
A sixty year old smiling public man	F
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II	A
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I dream of a Ledaean body bent	G
Above a sinking fire a tale that she	H
Told of a harsh reproof or trivial event	G
That changed some childish day to tragedy	H
Told and it seemed that our two natures blent	H
Into a sphere from youthful sympathy	H
Or else to alter Plato's parable	I
Into the yolk and white of the one shell	J
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III	A
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And thinking of that fit of grief or rage	K
I look upon one child or t'other there	L
And wonder if she stood so at that age	K
For even daughters of the swan can share	L
Something of every paddler's heritage	M
And had that colour upon cheek or hair	L
And thereupon my heart is driven wild	H
She stands before me as a living child	H
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IV	-
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Her present image floats into the mind	H
Did Quattrocento finger fashion it	H
Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind	H
And took a mess of shadows for its meat	H
And I though never of Ledaean kind	H
Had pretty plumage once enough of that	H
Better to smile on all that smile and show	N
There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow	N
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V	-
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What youthful mother a shape upon her lap	O
Honey of generation had betrayed	H
And that must sleep shriek struggle to escape	P
As recollection or the drug decide	H
Would think her Son did she but see that shape	P
With sixty or more winters on its head	H
A compensation for the pang of his birth	Q
Or the uncertainty of his setting forth	R
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VI	-
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Plato thought nature but a spume that plays	S
Upon a ghostly paradigm of things	T
Solider Aristotle played the taws	T
Upon the bottom of a king of kings	T
World famous golden thighed Pythagoras	T
Fingered upon a fiddle stick or strings	T
What a star sang and careless Muses heard	H
Old clothes upon old sticks to scare a bird	H
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VII	-
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Both nuns and mothers worship images	T
But thos the candles light are not as those	T
That animate a mother's reveries	T
But keep a marble or a bronze repose	T
And yet they too break hearts O presences	T
That passion piety or affection knows	T
And that all heavenly glory symbolise	T
O self born mockers of man's enterprise	T
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VIII	-
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Labour is blossoming or dancing where	L
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul	U
Nor beauty born out of its own despair	L
Nor blear eyed wisdom out of midnight oil	V
O chestnut tree great rooted blossomer	L
Are you the leaf the blossom or the bole	U
O body swayed to music O brightening glance	T
How can we know the dancer from the dance	T

William Butler Yeats

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