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I	A
First Love	B
	-
THOUGH nurtured like the sailing moon	C
In beauty's murderous brood	D
She walked awhile and blushed awhile	E
And on my pathway stood	F
Until I thought her body bore	G
A heart of flesh and blood	H
But since I laid a hand thereon	I
And found a heart of stone	J
I have attempted many things	K
And not a thing is done	L
For every hand is lunatic	M
That travels on the moon	C
She smiled and that transfigured me	N
And left me but a lout	O
Maundering here and maundering there	P
Emptier of thought	Q
Than the heavenly circuit of its stars	R
When the moon sails out	O
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II	A
Human Dignity	N
Like the moon her kindness is	S
If kindness I may call	T
What has no comprehension in't	N
But is the same for all	T
As though my sorrow were a scene	U
Upon a painted wall	T
So like a bit of stone I lie	A
Under a broken tree	N
I could recover if I shrieked	V
My heart's agony	N
To passing bird but I am dumb	W
From human dignity	N
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III	A
The Mermaid	X
A mermaid found a swimming lad	Y
Picked him for her own	J
Pressed her body to his body	N
Laughed and plunging down	Z
Forgot in cruel happiness	A2
That even lovers drown	Z
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IV	B
The Death of the Hare	P
I have pointed out the yelling pack	B2
The hare leap to the wood	F
And when I pass a compliment	C2
Rejoice as lover should	F
At the drooping of an eye	A
At the mantling of the blood	H
Then' suddenly my heart is wrung	D2
By her distracted air	P
And I remember wildness lost	E2
And after swept from there	P
Am set down standing in the wood	F
At the death of the hare	P
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V	B
The Empty Cup	F2
A crazy man that found a cup	F2
When all but dead of thirst	G2
Hardly dared to wet his mouth	H2
Imagining moon accursed	G2
That another mouthful	I2
And his beating heart would burst	G2
October last I found it too	G2
But found it dry as bone	J
And for that reason am I crazed	G2
And my sleep is gone	I
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VI	A
His Memories	J2
We should be hidden from their eyes	K2
Being but holy shows	L2
And bodies broken like a thorn	M2
Whereon the bleak north blows	L2
To think of buried Hector	N2
And that none living knows	L2
The women take so little stock	O2
In what I do or say	P2
They'd sooner leave their cosseting	O2
To hear a jackass bray	P2
My arms are like the twisted thorn	M2
And yet there beauty lay	P2
The first of all the tribe lay there	P
And did such pleasure take	O2
She who had brought great Hector down	Z
And put all Troy to wreck	O2
That she cried into this ear	Q2
'Strike me if I shriek '	-
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VII	A
The Friends of his Youth	R2
Laughter not time destroyed my voice	S2
And put that crack in it	G2
And when the moon's pot bellied	G2
I get a laughing fit	G2
For that old Madge comes down the lane	T2
A stone upon her breast	G2
And a cloak wrapped about the stone	J
And she can get no rest	G2
With singing hush and hush a bye	A
She that has been wild	G2
And barren as a breaking wave	A
Thinks that the stone's a child	G2
And Peter that had great affairs	U2
And was a pushing man	V2
Shrieks 'I am King of the Peacocks '	-
And perches on a stone	J
And then I laugh till tears run down	Z
And the heart thumps at my side	G2
Remembering that her shriek was love	A
And that he shrieks from pride	G2
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VIII	A
Summer and Spring	O2
We sat under an old thorn tree	B
And talked away the night	G2
Told all that had been said or done	L
Since first we saw the light	G2
And when we talked of growing up	F2
Knew that we'd halved a soul	W2
And fell the one in t'other's arms	X2
That we might make it whole	W2
Then peter had a murdering look	O2
For it seemed that he and she	B
Had spoken of their childish days	Y2
Under that very tree	B
O what a bursting out there was	Z2
And what a blossoming	O2
When we had all the summer time	A3
And she had all the spring	O2
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IX	Z2
The Secrets of the Old	G2
I have old women's sectets now	B3
That had those of the young	O2
Madge tells me what I dared not think	O2
When my blood was strong	O2
And what had drowned a lover once	Z2
Sounds like an old song	O2
Though Margery is stricken dumb	W
If thrown in Madge's way	P2
We three make up a solitude	G2
For none alive to day	P2
Can know the stories that we know	C3
Or say the things we say	P2
How such a man pleased women most	G2
Of all that are gone	I
How such a pair loved many years	Z2
And such a pair but one	L
Stories of the bed of straw	D3
Or the bed of down	Z
	-
X	Z2
His Wildness	Z2
O bid me mount and sail up there	P
Amid the cloudy wrack	O2
For peg and Meg and Paris' love	A
That had so straight a back	O2
Are gone away and some that stay	P2
Have changed their silk for sack	O2
Were I but there and none to hear	Q2
I'd have a peacock cry	A
For that is natural to a man	V2
That lives in memory	B
Being all alone I'd nurse a stone	J
And sing it lullaby	A
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XI	B
From 'Oedipus at Colonus'	B
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span	V2
Cease to remember the delights of youth travel wearied aged man	V2
Delight becomes death longing if all longing else be vain	T2
Even from that delight memory treasures so	B
Death despair division of families all entanglements of mankind grow	B
As that old wandering beggar and these God hated children know	B
In the long echoing street the laughing dancers throng	O2
The bride is catried to the bridegroom's chamber	N2
through torchlight and tumultuous song	O2
I celebrate the silent kiss that ends short life or long	O2
Never to have lived is best ancient writers say	B
Never to have drawn the breath of life never to have	A
looked into the eye of day	B
The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away	B

William Butler Yeats

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