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THE EVERLASTING VOICES by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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First Line: O SWEET EVERLASTING VOICES, BE STILL
Last Line: O SWEET EVERLASTING VOICES, BE STILL.
Subject(s): VOICES;
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still;
Go to the guards of the heavenly fold
And bid them wander obeying your will,
Flame under flame, till Time be no more;
Have you not heard that our hearts are old,
That you call in birds, in wind on the hill,
In shaken boughs, in tide on the shore?
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still.


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