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No second Troy

Author: William Butler Yeats

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Extent of text: 500 words

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Text ID Number: E910001-036

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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 No second Troy in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 91

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Profile Description

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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• (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: E910001-036

No second Troy: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.91

1. Why should I blame her that she filled my days
   With misery, or that she would of late
   Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
   Or hurled the little streets upon the great,
   Had they but courage equal to desire?
   What could have made her peaceful with a mind
   That nobleness made simple as a fire,
   With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind
   That is not natural in an age like this,
   Being high and solitary and most stern?
   Why, what could she have done being what she is?
   Was there another Troy for her to burn?