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  • An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.

    -W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
      'Sailing to Byzantium', stanza 8. Collected in TheTower (1928).

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