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...ted Poems William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEP... ... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... .... 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ANASHUYA AND... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... ...ECOND SUBSCRIP TION TO THE DUBLIN MUNICIPAL GALLERY IF IT WERE PROVED THE PEOPLE WANTED PICTURES . . . . . . . . . 102 SEPTEMBER 1913 . . . . . . . .... ...AISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 THE PEOPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 HI... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN .... ... Or a bird’s sleepy cry Among the deepening shades. MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR I Ancestral Houses SURELY among a rich man’s flowering lawns, Amid... ...r traffic in the grasshoppers or bees. THE TOWER 209 II When Loie Fuller’s Chinese dancers enwound A shining web, a floating ribbon of cloth, It seemed...

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