William Butler Yeats - The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery...

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The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night walkers' song After great cathedral gong; A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities, The fury and the mire of human veins.

William Butler Yeats

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