The Wild Swans at Coole (Collection)/A Deep-Sworn Vow

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1239926The Wild Swans at Coole — A Deep-Sworn VowWilliam Butler Yeats

A DEEP-SWORN VOW


Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.