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Yeats, W B - Collected poems - At midnight on the Emperor’s pavement flit
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011814
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W B Yeats – Collected Poems
From Byzantium
At midnight on the Emperor’s pavement flit
Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit,
Nor storm disturbs, flames begotten of flame
Where blood begotten spirits come
And all complexities of fury leave,
Dying into a dance,
An agony of trance
An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve