The following excerpt is taken from w. b. yeats's poem "easter, 1916," in which he examines his feelings toward those who took part in the easter rising in ireland. which lines suggest that yeats considered the rebels inflexible? too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. o when may it suffice? that is heaven's part, our part to murmur name upon name, as a mother names her child when sleep at last has come on limbs that had run wild. what is it but nightfall? no, no, not night but death; was it needless death after all? for england may keep faith for all that is done and said. we know their dream; enough to know they dreamed and are dead; and what if excess of love bewildered them till they died? i write it out in a verse— macdonagh and macbride and connolly and pearse now and in time to be, wherever green is worn, are changed, changed utterly a terrible beauty is born. a. too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. b. we know their dream; enough to know they dreamed and are dead; c. and what if excess of love bewildered them till they died? d. now and in time to be, wherever green is worn, are changed, changed utterly a terrible beauty is born.