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W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). The Wild Swans at Coole. 1919.

11. To a Young Girl

MY dear, my dear, I know

More than another

What makes your heart beat so;

Not even your own mother

Can know it as I know,

Who broke my heart for her

When the wild thought,

That she denies

And has forgot,

Set all her blood astir

And glittered in her eyes.