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Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
Approximate author period: c. 1902 AD · modern
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- W.B. Yeats
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- Approximate author period: c. 1902 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for W. B. Yeats: life dates 1865 to 1939. Wikidata Q40213, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40213 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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