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The Mask

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: 485 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-046

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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 Mask in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 105

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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

• (2012-02-15)

  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: E910001-046

The Mask: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.105

1. 'Put off that mask of burning gold
   With emerald eyes.'
   'O no, my dear, you make so bold
   To find if hearts be wild and wise,
   And yet not cold.'
2. 'I would but find what's there to find,
   Love or deceit.'
   'It was the mask engaged your mind,
   And after set your heart to beat,
   Not what's behind.'
3. 'But lest you are my enemy,
   I must enquire.'
   'O no, my dear, let all that be,
   What matter, so there is but fire
   In you, in me?'