| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12873 |
| QUOTATION: | We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise,
And the door stood open at our feast,
When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,
And a man with his back to the East. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), British poet. Unwelcome (l. 1–4). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
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