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The Player Queen

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: 535 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-017

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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 Player Queen in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 59–60

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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

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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: E910001-017

The Player Queen: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.59

1. (Song from an Unfinished Play)
2. MY mother dandled me and sang,
   'How young it is, how young!'
   And made a golden cradle
   That on a willow swung.
3. 'He went away,' my mother sang,
   'When I was brought to bed,'
   And all the while her needle pulled
   The gold and silver thread.
4. She pulled the thread and bit the thread
   And made a golden gown,
   And wept because she had dreamt that I
   Was born to wear a crown.

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p.60

5. 'When she was got,' my mother sang,
   'I heard a sea-mew cry,
   And saw a flake of the yellow foam
   That dropped upon my thigh.'
6. How therefore could she help but braid
   The gold into my hair,
   And dream that I should carry
   The golden top of care?