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But nothing satisfied the fool
But my dear Mary Moore,
None other knows what pleasures man
At table or in bed.
What shall I do for pretty girls
Now my old bawd is dead? - William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet. John Kinsella’s Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore (l. 7–12). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.

Categories: Death, Mourning, Sex

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