Page:Yeats Responsibilities 1916.djvu/168

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THE HOUR-GLASS

For if there's one that sat on smiling there,
As though my arguments were sweet as milk
Yet found them bitter, I will thank him for it,
If he but speak his mind.

First Pupil
There is no one, Master,

There is not one but found them sweet as milk.

Wise Man

The things that have been told us in our childhood
Are not so fragile.

Second Pupil
We are no longer children.
Third Pupil

We all believe in you and in what you have taught.