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... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE STOLEN CHILD . ... ...ves old. I sat and mused and drank sweet wine; A herdsman came from inland valleys, Crying, the pirates drove his swine To fill their dark beaked hollo... ...ur fair, Or remembering hers they will find no other face fair Till all the valleys of the world have been withered away. HE TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUT... ...ee To Michelozzo’s latest plan For the San Marco Library, Whence turbulent Italy should draw Delight in Art whose end is peace, In logic and in natura...

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...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...y thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thou- sand Russians and as many English w... ... Andrew remem- bered the story of Suvorov giving his saber to Bagration in Italy, and the recollection was particularly pleasant at that moment. They ... ...e 154 War & Peace heights was a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a milk-white sea. Nothing was vis- ible in the va... ...the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument brought from Italy, rep- resenting an angel with outspread wings ready to fly up- wards.... ...de and above it and especially in the woods and fields to the left, in the valleys and on the summits of the high ground, clouds of powder smoke seeme...

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...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

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