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Tom At Cruachan

by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

On Cruachan's plain slept he
That must sing in a rhyme
What most could shake his soul:
'The stallion Eternity
Mounted the mare of Time,
'Gat the foal of the world.'




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