The Wild Swans at Coole (Collection)/To A Young Girl

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1239890The Wild Swans at Coole — To A Young GirlWilliam Butler Yeats

TO A YOUNG GIRL


My dear, my dear, I know
More than another
What makes your heart beat so;
Not even your own mother
Can know it as I know,
Who broke my heart for her
When the wild thought,
That she denies
And has forgot,
Set all her blood astir
And glittered in her eyes.