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rene  ·  1879 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The lost art of memorization

When Helen Lived - W. B. Yeats

    We have cried in our despair

    That men desert,

    For some trivial affair

    Or noisy, insolent sport,

    Beauty that we have won

    From bitterest hours;

    Yet we, had we walked within

    Those topless towers

    Where Helen walked with her boy,

    Had given but as the rest

    Of the men and women of Troy,

    A word and a jest.