"The white moon is setting behind the white wave, And Time is setting with me, O!"
— Robert Burns

January 1, 1970

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A paraphrase by W. B. Yeats, in Ideas of Good and Evil (1907), p. 241, of Burns's "Open the Door to me, Oh" (1793) which reads: