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The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
A collection of poems was put together by Robert Bly and James Hillman. The book ends after over 500 pages with a part of a poem by Yates called Vassalation. If it begins if this book begins with the rag and bone shop of the heart it ends in the capacity of the human soul to bless here's Yates my 50th year had come and gone and I sat a solitary man in a crowded London shop an open book an empty cup upon the marble tabletop. While on that shop and street I gazed my body of a sudden blaze and 20 minutes more or less it seemed so great my happiness that I was blessed and could bless.
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