Sailing to Byzantium Quotes

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Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. (5-6)

That is no country for old men (1)

The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees – Those dying generations – at their song, (1-3)

An aged man is but a paltry thing, […] unless Soul clap its hands and sing, (9-11)