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O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance? - William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet. Among School Children (l. 61–64). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.

Categories: Dancers And Dancing, Interpretation

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