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    Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
    Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
    Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
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    Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi

    By W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Table of Contents

      THE TABLES OF THE LAW

      I

      II

      THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI

      THE TABLES OF THE LAW; & THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI

      Five hundred and ten copies printed; type distributed. No. 311

      THE TABLES OF THE LAW; & THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI

      BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

      THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS STRATFORD-UPON-AVON MCMXIV

      THE TABLES OF THE LAW

      THE TABLES OF THE LAW

      I

      'Will you permit me, Aherne,' I said, 'to ask you a question, which I have wanted to ask you for years, and have not asked because we have grown nearly strangers? Why did you refuse the berretta, and almost at the last moment? When you and I lived together, you cared neither for wine, women, nor money, and had thoughts for nothing but theology and mysticism.' I had watched through dinner for a moment to put my question, and ventured now, because he had thrown off a little of the reserve and indifference which, ever since his last return from Italy, had taken the place of our once close friendship. He had just questioned me, too, about certain private and almost sacred things, and my frankness had earned, I thought, a like frankness from him.

      When I began to speak he was lifting to his lips a glass of that old wine which he could choose so well and valued so little; and while I spoke, he set it slowly and meditatively upon the table and held it there, its deep red light dyeing his long delicate fingers. The impression of his face and form, as they were then, is still vivid with me, and is inseparable from another and fanciful impression: the impression of a man holding a flame in his naked hand. He was to me, at that moment, the supreme type of our race, which, when it has risen above, or is sunken below, the formalisms of half-education and the rationalisms of conventional affirmation and denial, turns away, unless my hopes for the world and for the Church have made me blind, from practicable desires and intuitions towards desires so unbounded that no human vessel can contain them, intuitions so immaterial that their sudden and far-off fire leaves heavy darkness about

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