CELT document E910001-005

September 1913

William Butler Yeats

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     p.32

    September 1913

  1. What need you, being come to sense,
    But fumble in a greasy till
    And add the halfpence to the pence
    And prayer to shivering prayer, until
    You have dried the marrow from the bone;
    For men were born to pray and save:
    Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
    It's with O'Leary in the grave.
    Yet they were of a different kind
    The names that stilled your childish play,
    They have gone about the world like wind,
    But little time had they to pray
    For whom the hangman's rope was spun, p.33
    And what, God help us, could they save:
    Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
    It's with O'Leary in the grave.
  2. Was it for this the wild geese spread
    The grey wing upon every tide;
    For this that all that blood was shed,
    For this Edward Fitzgerald died,
    And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,
    All that delirium of the brave;
    Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
    It's with O'Leary in the grave.
  3. Yet could we turn the years again,
    And call those exiles as they were,
    In all their loneliness and pain
    You'd cry 'some woman's yellow hair
    Has maddened every mother's son':
    They weighed so lightly what they gave,
    But let them be, they're dead and gone,
    They're with O'Leary in the grave.

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Title (uniform): September 1913

Author: William Butler Yeats

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Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by: Beatrix Färber and Juliette Maffet

Funded by: School of History, University College, Cork

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Extent: 610 words

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Date: 2012

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CELT document ID: E910001-005

Availability: 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.

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  • 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

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Yeats, William Butler (1916). ‘September 1913’. In: Responsibilities and other Poems‍. Ed. by William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 32–33.

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Creation: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). before 1916

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  • The poem is in English. (en)

Keywords: literary; poetry; W. B. Yeats; 19c; 20c

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  1. 2012-02-08: File proofed (2), additions to encoding made; header completed; file parsed; SGML and HTML files created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
  2. 2012-02-01: Header created. (ed. Juliette Maffet)
  3. 2012-01-23: First proofing. (ed. Juliette Maffet)
  4. 2012-01-18: Text captured by scanning. (file capture Juliette Maffet)

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