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Fallen Majesty

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: 471 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-024

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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 Fallen Majesty in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 68

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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: E910001-024

Fallen Majesty: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.70

1. ALTHOUGH crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,
   And even old men's eyes grew dim, this hand alone,
   Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping place,
   Babbling of fallen majesty, records what's gone.
2. The lineaments, a heart that laughter has made sweet,
   These, these remain, but I record what's gone. A crowd
   Will gather, and not know it walks the very street
   Whereon a thing once walked that seemed a burning cloud.