The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Volume 7 of 8

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William Butler Yeats. The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Volume 7 of 8

THE SECRET ROSE

TO THE SECRET ROSE

THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE OUTCAST

OUT OF THE ROSE

THE WISDOM OF THE KING

THE HEART OF THE SPRING

THE CURSE OF THE FIRES AND OF THE SHADOWS

THE OLD MEN OF THE TWILIGHT

WHERE THERE IS NOTHING, THERE IS GOD

OF COSTELLO THE PROUD, OF OONA THE DAUGHTER OF DERMOTT AND OF THE BITTER TONGUE

ROSA ALCHEMICA

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THE TABLES OF THE LAW

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THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI

JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA: TWO EARLY STORIES

JOHN SHERMAN

FIRST PART. JOHN SHERMAN LEAVES BALLAH

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SECOND PART. MARGARET LELAND

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THIRD PART. JOHN SHERMAN REVISITS BALLAH

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FOURTH PART. THE REV. WILLIAM HOWARD

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FIFTH PART. JOHN SHERMAN RETURNS TO BALLAH

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DHOYA

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As for living, our servants will do that for us. —Villiers de L’Isle Adam.

Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept, and wondered why she had twice been carried away. —Leonardo da Vinci.

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The lay brother found Brother Kevin, Brother Dove, Brother Little Wolf, Brother Bald Patrick, Brother Bald Brandon, Brother James and Brother Peter sitting up in bed, and he made them get up. Then they bound Cumhal, and they dragged him to the river, and they dipped him in it at the place which was afterwards called Buckley’s Ford.

‘Gleeman,’ said the lay brother, as they led him back to the guest-house, ‘why do you ever use the wit which God has given you to make blasphemous and immoral tales and verses? For such is the way of your craft. I have, indeed, many such tales and verses well nigh by rote, and so I know that I speak true! And why do you praise with rhyme those demons, Finvaragh, Red Aodh, Cleena, Aoibhell and Donn? I, too, am a man of great wit and learning, but I ever glorify our gracious abbot, and Benignus our Patron, and the princes of the province. My soul is decent and orderly, but yours is like the wind among the salley gardens. I said what I could for you, being also a man of many thoughts, but who could help such a one as you?’

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