Responsibilities/A Friend's Illness

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580301Responsibilities — A Friend's IllnessWilliam Butler Yeats

A FRIEND'S ILLNESS

Sickness brought me this
Thought, in that scale of his:
Why should I be dismayed
Though flame had burned the whole
World, as it were a coal,
Now I have seen it weighed
Against a soul?