It was the dream itself enchanted me:
Character isolated by a deed
To engross the present and dominate memory.
Players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.
[from "The Circus Animals' Desertion"]
Author: W.B. Yeats
![It was the dream itself enchanted me:<br />Character isolated by a deed<br />To engross the present and dominate memory.<br />Players and painted stage took all my love,<br />And not those things that they were emblems of.<br /><br />[from "The Circus Animals' Desertion"] - W.B. Yeats](/static/img/quotes/125466.jpg)