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A Deep-Sworn Vow: W. B. Yeats

This 3 sentence poem discusses a broken vow between two people that still haunts the speaker. Even when facing death, sleeping, or becoming excited from wine, the speaker is suddenly confronted by the face of the person they broke their vow with. The broken vow caused the person to lose friends who sided with the other.

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A Deep-Sworn Vow: W. B. Yeats

This 3 sentence poem discusses a broken vow between two people that still haunts the speaker. Even when facing death, sleeping, or becoming excited from wine, the speaker is suddenly confronted by the face of the person they broke their vow with. The broken vow caused the person to lose friends who sided with the other.

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A Deep-Sworn Vow

W. B. Yeats, 1865 - 1939


Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.

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