Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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