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On hearing that the Students of Our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians

by W. B. Yeats, 1916

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,
That long to give themselves for wage,
To shake their wicked sides at youth
Restraining reckless middle-age.

Published in Responsibilities, and other poems
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