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Yeats
And look up
now,' she said, 'for the wisps that are for our wedding are lighted. '
He saw then that the house was crowded with pale shadowy hands, and
that every hand was holding what was sometimes like a wisp lighted for
a marriage, and sometimes like a tall white candle for the dead.
When the sun rose on the morning of the morrow Winny of the Cross Roads
rose up from where she was sitting beside the body, and began her
begging from townland to townland, singing the same song as she walked,
'I am beautiful, I am beautiful. The birds in the air, the moths under
the leaves, the flies over the water look at me. Look at me, perishing
woods, for my body will be shining like the lake water after you have
been hurried away. You and the old race of men, and the race of the
beasts, and the race of the fish, and the winged race, are wearing away
like a candle that has been burned out. But I laugh out loud, because I
am in my youth. '
She did not come back that night or any night to the cabin, and it was
not till the end of two days that the turf cutters going to the bog
found the body of Red Owen Hanrahan, and gathered men to wake him and
women to keen him, and gave him a burying worthy of so great a poet.
_Printed by_ A. H. BULLEN, _at The Shakespeare Head Press,
Stratford-on-Avon. _
* * * * *
Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Varied hyphenation was retained
such as Drumahair on page 3 and Drum-a-hair on page 96.
Page 85, repeated word "a" removed from text. Original read (I fling a
a pebble on)
Page 191, "unforgetable" changed to "unforgettable" (most unforgettable
thoughts)
Page 235, "san" changed to "sang" (sang Hanrahan, and his)
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now,' she said, 'for the wisps that are for our wedding are lighted. '
He saw then that the house was crowded with pale shadowy hands, and
that every hand was holding what was sometimes like a wisp lighted for
a marriage, and sometimes like a tall white candle for the dead.
When the sun rose on the morning of the morrow Winny of the Cross Roads
rose up from where she was sitting beside the body, and began her
begging from townland to townland, singing the same song as she walked,
'I am beautiful, I am beautiful. The birds in the air, the moths under
the leaves, the flies over the water look at me. Look at me, perishing
woods, for my body will be shining like the lake water after you have
been hurried away. You and the old race of men, and the race of the
beasts, and the race of the fish, and the winged race, are wearing away
like a candle that has been burned out. But I laugh out loud, because I
am in my youth. '
She did not come back that night or any night to the cabin, and it was
not till the end of two days that the turf cutters going to the bog
found the body of Red Owen Hanrahan, and gathered men to wake him and
women to keen him, and gave him a burying worthy of so great a poet.
_Printed by_ A. H. BULLEN, _at The Shakespeare Head Press,
Stratford-on-Avon. _
* * * * *
Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Varied hyphenation was retained
such as Drumahair on page 3 and Drum-a-hair on page 96.
Page 85, repeated word "a" removed from text. Original read (I fling a
a pebble on)
Page 191, "unforgetable" changed to "unforgettable" (most unforgettable
thoughts)
Page 235, "san" changed to "sang" (sang Hanrahan, and his)
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of William Butler Yeats, Vol.
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