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New Poems (Yeats)/What Was Lost

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579470New Poems — What Was LostWilliam Butler Yeats

I SING what was lost and dread what was won,
I walk in a battle fought over again,
My king a lost king, and lost soldiers my men;
Feet to the Rising and Setting may run,
They always beat on the same small stone.