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The Cold Heaven

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: 517 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-026

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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 Cold Heaven in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 73–74

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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: E910001-026

The Cold Heaven: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.73

1. SUDDENLY I saw the cold and rookdelighting Heaven
   That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice,
   And thereupon imagination and heart were driven
   So wild that every casual thought of that and this
   Vanished, and left but memories, that should be out of season
   With the hot blood of youth, of love crossed long ago;
   And I took all the blame out of all sense and reason,
   Until I cried and trembled and rocked to and fro,
   Riddled with light. Ah! when the ghost begins to quicken,

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   p.74

   Confusion of the death-bed over, is it sent
   Out naked on the roads, as the books say, and stricken
   By the injustice of the skies for punishment?