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The Celtic Twilight, by William Butler Yeats, [1893, 1902], at sacred-texts.com


p. ii

BY THE SAME WRITER--

THE SECRET ROSE
POEMS
THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS
THE SHADOWY WATERS

p. iii

THE CELTIC TWILIGHT

p. iv

Printed 1893

Reprinted with additions 1902

p. v

Frontispiece
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Frontispiece

The Celtic Twilight

by W. B. YEATS

A. H. BULLEN, 18 Cecil Court

St. Martin's Lane, London, W.C.

MCMII

Scanned, proofed and formattted at sacred-texts.com, July 2001 by J. B. Hare. Additional formatting and proofing, January, 2004. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to 1923.

p. vi

Time drops in decay
Like a candle burnt out.
And the mountains and woods
Have their day, have their day;
But, kindly old rout
Of the fire-born moods,
You pass not away


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