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'THOSE Platonists are a curse,' he said,
'God's fire upon the wane,
A diagram hung there instead,
More women born than men.'

William Butler Yeats
Wednesday, May 16, 2001
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Unnikrishnan E S 31 October 2019

Very rarely is Yeats satirical in his poems. Here, he is at his best.

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