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William Butler Yeats

Yeats's life was neatly divided into a nineteenth-century half and a twentieth-century half; he was both an impractical dreamer and a hardheaded practical man of affairs; he was a Theosophist and a Rosicrucian but

Appointment, An

by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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 Being out of heart with government 
I took a broken root to fling
Where the proud, wayward squirrel went,
Taking delight that he could spring;
And he, with that low whinnying sound
That is like laughter, sprang again
And so to the other tree at a bound.
Nor the tame will, nor timid brain,
Nor heavy knitting of the brow

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