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His Dream

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: 527 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-033

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The works by W. B. Yeats are in the public domain. This electronic text is available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of private or academic research and teaching.

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 His Dream in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 85–86

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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

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The whole selection.

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Text has been proof-read twice.

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The electronic text represents the edited text. Lines (or parts of them) reproduced in italics in the printed edition are tagged hi rend="ital".

Hyphenation

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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

• (2012-02-13)

  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: E910001-033

His Dream: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.85

1. I SWAYED upon the gaudy stern
   The butt end of a steering oar,
   And everywhere that I could turn
   Men ran upon the shore.
2. And though I would have hushed the crowd
   There was no mother's son but said,
   'What is the figure in a shroud
   Upon a gaudy bed?'
3. And fishes bubbling to the brim
   Cried out upon that thing beneath,
   —It had such dignity of limb—
   By the sweet name of Death.
4. Though I'd my finger on my lip,
   What could I but take up the song?

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   p.86

   And fish and crowd and gaudy ship
   Cried out the whole night long,
5. Crying amid the glittering sea,
   Naming it with ecstatic breath,
   Because it had such dignity
   By the sweet name of Death.