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Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind
And took a mess of shadows for its meat?
- William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet. Among School Children (l. 27–28). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.

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