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WHAT WAS LOST by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: I SING WHAT WAS LOST AND DREAD WHAT WAS WON
Last Line: They always beat on the same small stone
Subject(s): WAR;
I sing what was lost and dread what was won,
I walk in a battle fought over again,
My king a lost king, and lost soldiers my men;
Feet to the Rising and Setting may run,
They always beat on the same small stone.



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