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To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing

Author: William Butler Yeats

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Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber, Juliette Maffet

Funded by School of History, University College, Cork

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 493 words

Publication

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-006

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The works by W. B. Yeats are in the public domain. This electronic text is available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of private or academic research and teaching.

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 To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 34

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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

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The whole selection.

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Text has been proof-read twice.

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The electronic text represents the edited text. Lines (or parts of them) reproduced in italics in the printed edition are tagged hi rend="ital".

Hyphenation

The editorial practice of the hard-copy editor has been retained.

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div0 =the poem, stanzas are marked lg.

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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). Date range: before 1916.

Use of language

Language: [EN] The poem is in English.

Revision History

• (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.)

• Header created.
• (2012-01-23)

  Juliette Maffet (ed.)

• First proofing.
• (2012-01-18)

  Juliette Maffet (file capture)

• Text captured by scanning.

Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-006

To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.34

1. Now all the truth is out,
   Be secret and take defeat
   From any brazen throat,
   For how can you compete,
   Being honour bred, with one
   Who, were it proved he lies,
   Were neither shamed in his own
   Nor in his neighbours' eyes?
   Bred to a harder thing
   Than Triumph, turn away
   And like a laughing string
   Whereon mad fingers play
   Amid a place of stone,
   Be secret and exult,
   Because of all things known
   That is most difficult.