Sailing to Byzantium Flashcards

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That is no country for old men. The young

In one another’s arms, birds in the trees

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—Those dying generations—at their song,

The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,

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—Those dying generations—at their song,

The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,

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Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long

Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.

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Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long

Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.

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Caught in that sensual music all neglect

Monuments of unageing intellect.

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An aged man is but a paltry thing,

A tattered coat upon a stick, unless

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Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing

For every tatter in its mortal dress,

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Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing

For every tatter in its mortal dress,

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Nor is there singing school but studying

Monuments of its own magnificence;

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Nor is there singing school but studying

Monuments of its own magnificence;

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And therefore I have sailed the seas and come

To the holy city of Byzantium.

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O sages standing in God’s holy fire

As in the gold mosaic of a wall,

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Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,

And be the singing-masters of my soul.

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Consume my heart away; sick with desire

And fastened to a dying animal

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It knows not what it is; and gather me

Into the artifice of eternity.

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Once out of nature I shall never take

My bodily form from any natural thing,

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But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Of hammered gold and gold enamelling

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But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Of hammered gold and gold enamelling

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To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;

Or set upon a golden bough to sing

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To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;

Or set upon a golden bough to sing

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To lords and ladies of Byzantium

Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

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