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William Butler Yeats Quotes: The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
         

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.


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