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W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916.

42. A Drinking Song

WINE comes in at the mouth

And love comes in at the eye;

That’s all we shall know for truth

Before we grow old and die.

I lift the glass to my mouth,

I look at you, and I sigh.