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W.B. Yeats
(18651939).
Responsibilities and Other Poems.
1916.
38.
King and No King
W
OULD
it were anything but merely voice!
The No King cried who after that was King,
Because he had not heard of anything
That balanced with a word is more than noise;
Yet Old Romance being kind, let him prevail
5
Somewhere or somehow that I have forgot,
Though hed but cannonWhereas we that had thought
To have lit upon as clean and sweet a tale
Have been defeated by that pledge you gave
In momentary anger long ago;
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And I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
Well find so good a thing as that we have lost?
The hourly kindness, the days common speech,
The habitual content of each with each
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When neither soul nor body has been crossed.
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