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Closing Rhymes

Author: William Butler Yeats

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Extent of text: 492 words

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Text ID Number: E910001-032

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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 Closing Rhymes in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 63

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Profile Description

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

Use of language

Language: [EN] The poems are in English.

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• (2012-02-13)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

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• (2012-02-01)

  Juliette Maffet (ed.)

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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-032

Closing Rhymes: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.63

1. While I, from that reed-throated whisperer
   Who comes at need, although not now as once
   A clear articulation in the air
   But inwardly, surmise companions
   Beyond the fling of the dull ass's hoof,
   —Ben Jonson's phrase—and find when June is come
   At Kyle-na-no under that ancient roof
   A sterner conscience and a friendlier home,
   I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
   Those undreamt accidents that have made me
   —Seeing that Fame has perished this long while
   Being but a part of ancient ceremony—
   Notorious, till all my priceless things
   Are but a post the passing dogs defile.