Yeats, William Butler

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An Irish poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, regarded by many as the greatest modern poet in English. Some of his best-known poems are “Sailing to Byzantium,” “The Second Coming,” and “Among School Children.”

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"I most humbly thank your lordship," replied the butler with an air of profound gratitude, as he chuckled in his sleeve.
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What is, then, this precious drink I read of in my Shakespeare—so precious, that your lordship will not trust him to his butler?
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