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William Butler Yeats Quotes

If I make the lashes dark. And the eyes more bright. And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right. From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had. Before the world was made.

William Butler Yeats

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