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But O, sick children of the world,
Of all the many changing things
In dreary dancing past us whirled,
To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
Words alone are certain good.
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist,
The Song of the Happy Shepherd
, 1889
Posted on January 25, 2000 at 7:41 AM
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