Page:Yeats Responsibilities 1916.djvu/176

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THE HOUR-GLASS

He said, when we were studying the book,
That maybe after all the monks were right,
And you mistaken, and if we but gave him time,
He'd prove that it was so.

Fourth Pupil
I never said it.
Wise Man

Dear friend, dear friend, do you believe in God?

Fourth Pupil

Master, they have invented this to mock me.

Wise Man

You are afraid of me.