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This great purple butterfly, In the prison of

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This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.

Come away, O human child! To the waters and t

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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Why should we honour those that die upon the fiel

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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting

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Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.

The years like great black oxen tread the world

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The years like great black oxen tread the world
And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,

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Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

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