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    The Hour Glass
    The Hour Glass
    The Hour Glass
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    The Hour Glass

    By W B Yeats

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Hour Glass" by W. B. Yeats. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateSep 5, 2022
    ISBN8596547221494
    The Hour Glass
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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 Hour Glass - W B Yeats

      W. B. Yeats

      The Hour Glass

      EAN 8596547221494

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

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      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      THE HOUR-GLASS

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      Table of Contents

      A WISE MAN

      A FOOL

      SOME PUPILS

      AN ANGEL

      THE WISE MAN'S WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN

      THE HOUR-GLASS

      Table of Contents

      SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room. A desk and a chair in the middle. An hour-glass on a bracket near the door. A creepy stool near it. Some benches. The WISE MAN sitting at his desk.

      WISE MAN [turning over the pages of a book]. Where is that passage I am to explain to my pupils to-day? Here it is, and the book says that it was written by a beggar on the walls of Babylon: There are two living countries, the one visible and the one invisible; and when it is winter with us it is summer in that country; and when the November winds are up among us it is lambing-time there. I wish that my pupils had asked me to explain any other passage, for this is a hard passage. [The FOOL comes in and stands at the door,

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