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Introductory Rhymes

Author: William Butler Yeats

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1. First draft.

Extent of text: 565 words

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Text ID Number: E910001-001

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Sources

Bibliography
1. A bibliography is available online at the official web site of the Nobel Prize. See: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bibl.html

The edition used in the digital edition
1. William Butler Yeats Introductory Rhymes in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 1–2

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Names of persons (given names), and places are not tagged. Terms for cultural and social roles are not tagged.

Profile Description

Created: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). (January 1914)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The poem is in English.

Revision History

• (2012-02-29)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• Proof corrections made by CELT volunteer Carol Cregg integrated.
• (2012-02-08)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• File proofed (2), additions to encoding made; header completed; file parsed; SGML and HTML files created.
• (2012-02-01)

  Juliette Maffet (ed.)

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• (2012-01-23)

  Juliette Maffet (ed.)

• First proofing.
• (2012-01-18)

  Juliette Maffet (file capture)

• Text captured by scanning.

Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-001

Introductory Rhymes: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.1

1. Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain
   Somewhere in ear-shot for the story's end,
   Old Dublin merchant 'free of ten and four'
   Or trading out of Galway into Spain;
   And country scholar, Robert Emmet's friend,
   A hundred-year-old memory to the poor;
   Traders or soldiers who have left me blood
   That has not passed through any huxter's loin,
   Pardon, and you that did not weigh the cost,
   Old Butlers when you took to horse and stood
   Beside the brackish waters of the Boyne
   Till your bad master blenched and all was lost;

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   p.2

   You merchant skipper that leaped overboard
   After a ragged hat in Biscay Bay,
   You most of all, silent and fierce old man
   Because you were the spectacle that stirred
   My fancy, and set my boyish lips to say
   ‘Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun’;
   Pardon that for a barren passion's sake,
   Although I have come close on forty-nine
   I have no child, I have nothing but a book,
   Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine.