Vows

Nay, ask me not. I would not dare pretend

To constant passion and a life-long trust.

They will desert thee, if indeed they must.

How can we guess what Destiny will send-

Smiles of fair fortune, or black storms to rend

What even now is shaken by a gust?

The fire will burn, or it will die in dust.

We cannot tell until the final end.

And never vow was forged that could confine

Aught but the body of the thing whereon

Its pledge was stamped. The inner soul divine,

That thinks of going, is already gone.

When faith and love need bolts upon the door,

Faith is not faith, and love abides no more.

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Poems in English 

• Sixteen Dead Men by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• Shepherd And Goatherd by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• September 1913 by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• Running To Paradise by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• Roger Casement by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• Responsibilities; Introduction by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Hosting Of The Sidhe by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Host Of The Air by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Heart Of The Woman by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Hawk by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Happy Townland by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Gyres by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Grey Rock by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Ghost Of Roger Casement by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Fool By The Roadside by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Folly Of Being Comforted by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Fisherman by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Fish by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Fiddler Of Dooney by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats

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Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

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Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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