A Quote by William Butler Yeats

Why should he think me cruel
  Or that he is betrayed?
I'd have him love the thing that was
  Before the world was made.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: A Woman Young and Old
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