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Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation

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: 513 words

Publication

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-047

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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 Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 106–107

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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

The editorial practice of the hard-copy editor has been retained.

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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

• (2012-02-15)

  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: E910001-047

Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.106

1. How should the world be luckier if this house,
   Where passion and precision have been one
   Time out of mind, became too ruinous
   To breed the lidless eye that loves the sun?
   And the sweet laughing eagle thoughts that grow
   Where wings have memory of wings, and all
   That comes of the best knit to the best? Although
   Mean roof-trees were the sturdier for its fall,
   How should their luck run high enough to reach

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   p.107

   The gifts that govern men, and after these
   To gradual Time's last gift, a written speech
   Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease?