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A MEDITATION IN TIME OF WAR by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: FOR ONE THROB OF THE ARTERY
Last Line: MANKIND INANIMATE PHANTASY.
Subject(s): WAR;
For one throb of the artery,
While on that old grey stone I sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate phantasy.



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