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The Consolation

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: 507 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-035

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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 Consolation in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 89–90

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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

• (2012-02-13)

  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: E910001-035

The Consolation: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.89

1. I had this thought awhile ago,
   'My darling cannot understand
   What I have done, or what would do
   In this blind bitter land.'
2. And I grew weary of the sun
   Until my thoughts cleared up again,
   Remembering that the best I have done
   Was done to make it plain;
3. That every year I have cried, 'At length
   My darling understands it all,
   Because I have come into my strength,
   And words obey my call.'

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   p.90

   That had she done so who can say
   What would have shaken from the sieve?
   I might have thrown poor words away
   And been content to live.