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Title: Per Amica Silentia Lunae

Author: William Butler Yeats

Release Date: August 3, 2010 [EBook #33338]

Language: English

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PER AMICA SILENTIA LUNAE

OTHER WORKS OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

POEMS AND PLAYS, 2 volumes:

I--Lyrics. $2.00.
II--DRAMATIC POEMS. $2.00.

THE CELTIC TWILIGHT. $1.50.

IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL. $1.50.

STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN. $1.25.

REVERIES OVER CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH. Illustrated. $2.00.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND OTHER POEMS. $1.25.

THE TABLES OF THE LAW. $1.25.

THE HOUR GLASS AND OTHER PLAYS. $1.25.

THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS. $1.25.

THE CUTTING OF AN AGATE. $1.50.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

PER AMICA SILENTIA LUNAE

_SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION_

PER AMICA SILENTIA LUNAE

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1918
_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1918,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1918.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PROLOGUE

MY DEAR "MAURICE"--You will remember that afternoon in Calvados last
summer when your black Persian "Minoulooshe," who had walked behind us for
a good mile, heard a wing flutter in a bramble-bush? For a long time we
called her endearing names in vain. She seemed resolute to spend her night
among the brambles. She had interrupted a conversation, often interrupted
before, upon certain thoughts so long habitual that I may be permitted to
call them my convictions. When I came back to London my mind ran again and
again to those conversations and I could not rest till I had written out
in this little book all that I had said or would have said. Read it some
day when "Minoulooshe" is asleep.