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Beggar to Beggar Cried

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: 560 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-013

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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 Beggar to Beggar Cried in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 47–48

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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

• (2012-02-10)

  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: E910001-013

Beggar to Beggar Cried: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.47

1. 'Time to put off the world and go somewhere
   And find my health again in the sea air,'
   Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzystruck,
   'And make my soul before my pate is bare.'
2. 'And get a comfortable wife and house
   To rid me of the devil in my shoes,'
   Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzystruck,
   'And the worse devil that is between my thighs.'
3. 'And though I'd marry with a comely lass,

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   p.48

   She need not be too comely—let it pass,'
   Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzystruck,
   'But there's a devil in a looking-glass.'
4. 'Nor should she be too rich, because the rich
   Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,'
   Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzystruck,
   'And cannot have a humorous happy speech.'
5. 'And there I'll grow respected at my ease,
   And hear amid the garden's nightly peace'
   Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzystruck,
   'The wind-blown clamor of the barnacle-geese.'