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On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Have Joined The Agitation Against Immoral Literature

William Butler Yeats

Where, where but here have pride and Truth,
That long to give themselves for wage,
To shake their wicked sides at youth
Restraining reckless middle-age?
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From The Green Helmet and Other Poems | 1910
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