God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone. (William Butler Yeats)

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone.

William Butler Yeats

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