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NUMBER:66511
QUOTATION:Irish poets, learn your trade,
Sing whatever is well made,
Scorn the sort now growing up
All out of shape from toe to top.
ATTRIBUTION:William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet and playwright. Under Ben Bulben, sct. 5, Last Poems (1939).

Written five months before Yeats’s death.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Yeats Collection.
 
 
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