The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
By W B Yeats
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W B Yeats
William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in County Dublin. With his much-loved early poems such as 'The Stolen Child', and 'He Remembers Forgotten Beauty', he defined the Celtic Twilight mood of the late-Victorian period and led the Irish Literary Renaissance. Yet his style evolved constantly, and he is acknowledged as a major figure in literary modernism and twentieth-century European letters. T. S. Eliot described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. W. B. Yeats died in 1939.
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The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi - W B Yeats
W. B. Yeats
The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
Published by Good Press, 2019
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THE TABLES OF THE LAW; & THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI
THE TABLES OF THE LAW
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THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI
THE TABLES OF THE LAW; & THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI
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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
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THE TABLES OF THE LAW
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'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