Are you the leaf, the blossom, or the bole? / O body swayed to music, o brightening glance, / How can we know the dancer from the dance? // - W. B. [William Butler] Yeats (1865 - 1939): Among School Children PART VIII
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お前は葉？花？それとも幹？ ／ああ、音楽に合わせて揺れ動く肢体よ、ああ、一瞬輝きを放つ眼差しよ、／どうして踊り子を踊りと区別できようか。／／ - Ｗ・Ｂ・イェーツ［イェイツ］ (1865 - 1939): 『学童たちのあいだで』第八部
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