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The Well and the Tree

Author: William Butler Yeats

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Extent of text: 487 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-014

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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 The Well and the Tree in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 49

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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.)

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• (2012-01-23)

  Juliette Maffet (ed.)

• First proofing.
• (2012-01-18)

  Juliette Maffet (file capture)

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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-014

The Well and the Tree: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.49

1. 'The Man that I praise,'
   Cries out the empty well,
   'Lives all his days
   Where a hand on the bell
   Can call the milch-cows
   To the comfortable door of his house.
   Who but an idiot would praise
   Dry stones in a well?'
2. 'The Man that I praise,'
   Cries out the leafless tree,
   'Has married and stays
   By an old hearth, and he
   On naught has set store
   But children and dogs on the floor.
   Who but an idiot would praise
   A withered tree?'