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A poem about one of these places ends “And may these characters remain when all is ruin once again,” and was written “to be carved on a stone at” one of these places. A poem titled for one of these places describes an “ancient ruffian” who bewitches a pack of cards so it turns into a pack of hounds. (10[1])The speaker of that poem titled for one of these places awaits evils like “the wreck of body” and “slow decay of blood.” A poet and his wife Georgia Hyde-Lees lived in one of these places called Ballylee that inspired a poem about the speaker’s “decrepit age,” which begins by asking (10[1])“What shall I do with this absurdity?” (10[2])The “broken (10[1]-5[1])wall, the (10[1])burning roof (10[3])and” (10[1]-5[1])one (-5[1])of these places are mentioned in (10[1])“Leda and the Swan.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[2])“Sailing to (10[1])Byzantium” is in a W. B. Yeats (10[1])(“yates”) collection (10[2])titled for what component of the castle where (-5[1])he (0[1])lived? ■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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