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<Author>Yeats, William Butler</Author>
<Title>The Collected Poems</Title>
<Edition>Definitive Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1956</Edition>
<Date>1880-1939</Date>
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<l>CROSS WAYS</l>
<l>THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD</l>
<l>THE woods of Arcady are dead,</l>
<l>And over is their antique joy;</l>
<l>Of old the world on dreaming fed;</l>
<l>Grey Truth is now her painted toy;</l>
<l>Yet still she turns her restless head:</l>
<l>But O, sick children of the world,</l>
<l>Of all the many changing things</l>
<l>In dreary dancing past us whirled,</l>
<l>To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,</l>
<l>Words alone are certain good.</l>
<l>Where are now the warring kings,</l>
<l>Word be-mockers?--By the Rood,</l>
<l>Where are now the watring kings?</l>
<l>An idle word is now their glory,</l>
<l>By the stammering schoolboy said,</l>
<l>Reading some entangled story:< . . .
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