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

44. On hearing that the Students of Our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature

WHERE, where but here have Pride and Truth,

That long to give themselves for wage,

To shake their wicked sides at youth

Restraining reckless middle-age.