CELT document E910001-001

Introductory Rhymes

William Butler Yeats

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     p.1

    Introductory Rhymes

    January 1914

  1. Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain
    Somewhere in ear-shot for the story's end,
    Old Dublin merchant 'free of ten and four'
    Or trading out of Galway into Spain;
    And country scholar, Robert Emmet's friend,
    A hundred-year-old memory to the poor;
    Traders or soldiers who have left me blood
    That has not passed through any huxter's loin,
    Pardon, and you that did not weigh the cost,
    Old Butlers when you took to horse and stood
    Beside the brackish waters of the Boyne
    Till your bad master blenched and all was lost; p.2
    You merchant skipper that leaped overboard
    After a ragged hat in Biscay Bay,
    You most of all, silent and fierce old man
    Because you were the spectacle that stirred
    My fancy, and set my boyish lips to say
    “Only the wasteful virtues earn the, sun”;
    Pardon that for a barren passion's sake,
    Although I have come close on forty-nine
    I have no child, I have nothing but a book,
    Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine.

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Title (uniform): Introductory Rhymes

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: 565 words

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Date: 2012

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CELT document ID: E910001-001

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). ‘Introductory Rhymes’. In: Responsibilities and other Poems‍. Ed. by William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 1–2.

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  date 	 = {1916},
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Creation: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939).

Date: January 1914

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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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