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THE TOWER

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA · MADRAS
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

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DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.

TORONTO

THE TOWER

BY

W. B. YEATS

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1928

COPYRIGHT

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

BY R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, EDINBURGH

CONTENTS

	Page
Sailing to Byzantium	1
The Tower	4
Meditations in Time of Civil War	16
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen	32
The Wheel	42
Youth and Age	43
The New Faces	44
A Prayer for my Son	45
Two Songs from a Play	47
Wisdom	49
Leda and the Swan	51
On a Picture of a Black Centaur	53
Among School Children	55
Colonus' Praise	61
The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool	64
Owen Ahern and his Dancers	67
A Man Young and Old	70
The Three Monuments	79
From 'Oedipus at Colonus'	80
The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid	82
All Souls' Night	98

Notes	105

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1931.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1939, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 86 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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