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On Hearing Students Joined Ancient Order Of Hibernians...

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Title:     On Hearing Students Joined Ancient Order Of Hibernians...
Author: William Butler Yeats [More Titles by Yeats]

On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation Against Immoral Literature.


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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William Butler Yeats's poem: On Hearing Students Joined Ancient Order Of Hibernians...

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