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.
- W.B. Yeats, 1919.
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