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by W. B. Yeats


  Two Songs from a Play

  These songs are sung by the Chorus in a play that has for its theme Christ’s first appearance to the Apostles after the Resurrection, a play intended for performance in a drawing-room or studio.

  Among School Children

  STANZA III

  I have taken ‘the honey of generation’ from Porphyry’s essay on ‘The Cave of the Nymphs’, but find no warrant in Porphyry for considering it the ‘drug’ that destroys the ‘recollection’ of pre-natal freedom. He blamed a cup of oblivion given in the zodiacal sign of Cancer.

  The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid

  Part of an unfinished set of poems, dialogues and stories about John Ahern and Michael Robartes, Kusta ben Luka, a philosopher of Bagdad, and his Bedouin followers.

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  First published 1928

  This edition first published in Penguin Classics 2017

  Cover design and illustration: Coralie Bickford-Smith

  ISBN: 978-0-241-30323-8

 

 

 


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