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To a wealthy Man who promised a second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures

Author: William Butler Yeats

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Extent of text: 683 words

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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

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1. William Butler Yeats To a wealthy Man who promised a second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 29–31

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Created: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). (December 1912)

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Language: [EN] The poem is in English.

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• (2012-02-29)

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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-004

To a wealthy Man who promised a second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.29

1. You gave but will not give again
   Until enough of Paudeen's pence
   By Biddy's halfpennies have lain
   To be 'some sort of evidence,'
   Before you'll put your guineas down,
   That things it were a pride to give
   Are what the blind and ignorant town
   Imagines best to make it thrive.
   What cared Duke Ercole, that bid
   His mummers to the market place,
   What th' onion-sellers thought or did
   So that his Plautus set the pace
   For the Italian comedies?
   And Guidobaldo, when he made

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   p.30

   That grammar school of courtesies
   Where wit and beauty learned their trade
   Upon Urbino's windy hill,
   Had sent no runners to and fro
   That he might learn the shepherds' will.
   And when they drove out Cosimo,
   Indifferent how the rancour ran,
   He gave the hours they had set free
   To Michelozzo's latest plan
   For the San Marco Library,
   Whence turbulent Italy should draw
   Delight in Art whose end is peace,
   In logic and in natural law
   By sucking at the dugs of Greece.
2. Your open hand but shows our loss,
   For he knew better how to live.
   Let Paudeens play at pitch and toss,
   Look up in the sun's eye and give
   What the exultant heart calls good

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   p.31

   That some new day may breed the best
   Because you gave, not what they would
   But the right twigs for an eagle's nest!