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At the Abbey Theatre

Author: William Butler Yeats

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Extent of text: 531 words

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Text ID Number: E910001-048

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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 At the Abbey Theatre in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 108–109

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Created: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Date range: before 1916.

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Language: [EN] The poem is in English.

Language: [GA] Two words are in Irish.

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.)

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• (2012-01-23)

  Juliette Maffet (ed.)

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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-048

At the Abbey Theatre: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.108

1. (Imitated from Ronsard)
2. Dear Craoibhin Aoibhin, look into our case.
   When we are high and airy hundreds say
   That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place,
   While those same hundreds mock another day
   Because we have made our art of common things,
   So bitterly, you'd dream they longed to look
   All their lives through into some drift of wings.
   You've dandled them and fed them from the book

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   p.109

   And know them to the bone; impart to us—
   We'll keep the secret—a new trick to please.
   Is there a bridle for this Proteus
   That turns and changes like his draughty seas?
   Or is there none, most popular of men,
   But when they mock us that we mock again?