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The Coming of Wisdom with Time







Though leaves are many, the root is one;


Through all the lying days of my youth


I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;


Now I may wither into the truth.




[(from The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910)


W. B. Yeats: The Poems rev. ed. Finneran]


 Anne Yeats


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