That toil of growing up The ignominy of boyhood the distress Of boyhood changing into man The unfinished man and his pain. (William Butler Yeats)

That toil of growing up The ignominy of boyhood the distress Of boyhood changing into man The unfinished man and his pain.

William Butler Yeats

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