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07 Dec 11 at 7 pm
tags: Yeats  poetry  bird  mourn 

O, but the mockers’ cry

makes my heart afraid,

as though a flute of bone

taken from a heron’s thigh,

a heron crazed by the moon,

were cleverly, softly played.

~ W.B Yeats, 1921.

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