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Three Movements

by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand;
What are all those fish that lie gasping on the strand?




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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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