The Celtic Twilight

By William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

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We can make our minds so like still water

That beings gather about us,

That they may see, it may be,

Their own images,

And so live for a moment,

With a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life,

Because of our quiet.