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The Tower (Yeats)

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The Tower (1928)
by W. B. Yeats
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THE TOWER

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA · MADRAS
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

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THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.

TORONTO

THE TOWER


BY

W. B. YEATS


MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1928

COPYRIGHT


PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

BY R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, EDINBURGH

CONTENTS

Page
Sailing to Byzantium 1
The Tower 4
Meditations in Time of Civil War 16
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen 32
The Wheel 42
Youth and Age 43
The New Faces 44
A Prayer for my Son 45
Two Songs from a Play 47
Wisdom 49
Leda and the Swan 51
On a Picture of a Black Centaur 53
Among School Children 55
Colonus' Praise 61
The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool 64
Owen Ahern and his Dancers 67
A Man Young and Old 70
The Three Monuments 79
From 'Oedipus at Colonus' 80
The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid 82
All Souls' Night 98

Notes 105


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1939, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 84 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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