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Memory

by W. B. Yeats, 1919

One had a lovely face,
 And two or three had charm,
 But charm and face were in vain
 Because the mountain grass
 Cannot but keep the form
 Where the mountain hare has lain.

Published in The Wild Swans at Coole
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