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Friends

Author: William Butler Yeats

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Extent of text: 535 words

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Text ID Number: E910001-025

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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 Friends in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 71–72

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Created: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Date range: before 1916.

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Language: [EN] The poem is in English.

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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-025

Friends: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.71

1. Now must I these three praise—
   Three women that have wrought
   What joy is in my days;
   One that no passing thought,
   Nor those unpassing cares,
   No, not in these fifteen
   Many times troubled years,
   Could ever come between
   Heart and delighted heart;
   And one because her hand
   Had strength that could unbind
   What none can understand,
   What none can have and thrive,
   Youth's dreamy load, till she
   So changed me that I live
   Labouring in ecstasy.
   And what of her that took
   All till my youth was gone

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   p.72

   With scarce a pitying look?
   How should I praise that one?
   When day begins to break
   I count my good and bad,
   Being wakeful for her sake,
   Remembering what she had,
   What eagle look still shows,
   While up from my heart's root
   So great a sweetness flows
   I shake from head to foot.