OPEN-EYED AND LAUGHING
EUTERPE
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"Test every work of intellect or faith,
And everything that your own hands have wrought
And call those works extravagance of breath
That are not suited for such men as come
proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb." - W.B. Yeats, Vacillation
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