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William Butler Yeats Quotes: On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
         

On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!


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