William Butler Yeats

Ireland
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet

Mock mockers after that
That would not lift a hand maybe
To help good, wise or great
To bar that foul storm out, for we
Traffic in mockery.

The Tower, 1928. Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen


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