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Title: Seven Poems and a Fragment

Author: William Butler Yeats

Release Date: April 12, 2010 [EBook #31959]

Language: English

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SEVEN POEMS AND A FRAGMENT

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.

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THE CUALA PRESS
DUNDRUM
MCMXXII

TABLE OF CONTENTS

All Souls' Night Page 1

Suggested by a Picture of a Black Centaur 6

Thoughts upon the Present State of the World 7

The New Faces 14

A Prayer for My Son 14

Cuchulain the Girl and the Fool 16

The Wheel 18

A New End for 'The King's Threshold' 18

NOTES

Note on 'Thoughts Upon the Present State of the
World' Section Six 23

Note on The New End to 'The King's Threshold' 24

SEVEN POEMS AND A FRAGMENT: BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.

ALL SOULS' NIGHT

'Tis All Souls' Night and the great Christ Church bell,
And many a lesser bell, sound through the room,
For it is now midnight;
And two long glasses brimmed with muscatel
Bubble upon the table. A ghost may come,
For it is a ghost's right,
His element is so fine
Being sharpened by his death,
To drink from the wine-breath
While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

I need some mind that, if the cannon sound
From every quarter of the world, can stay
Wound in mind's pondering,
As mummies in the mummy-cloth are wound;
Because I have a marvellous thing to say,
A certain marvellous thing
None but the living mock,
Though not for sober ear;
It may be all that hear
Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

H--'s the first I call. He loved strange thought