On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Have Joined The Agitation Against Immoral Literature

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

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?

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