The Tower by W.B. Yeats

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Her present image floats into the mind-- Did Quattrocento finger fashion it Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind And took a mess of shadows for its meat? And I though never of Ledaean kind Had pretty plumage once--enough of that, Better to smile on all that smile, and show There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow.

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