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W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916.

43. The Coming of Wisdom with Time

THOUGH leaves are many, the root is one;

Through all the lying days of my youth

I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;

Now I may wither into the truth.