THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
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THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
BY
W. B. YEATS
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1919
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1917 and 1918, By MARGARET C. ANDERSON.
Copyright, 1918, By HARRIET MONROE.
Copyright, 1918 and 1919, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1919.
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
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PREFACE
This book is, in part, a reprint of The Wild Swans at Coole, printed a year ago on my sister's hand-press at Dundrum, Co. Dublin. I have not, however, reprinted a play which may be a part of a book of new plays suggested by the dance plays of Japan, and I have added a number of new poems. Michael Robartes and John Aherne, whose names occur in one or other of these, are characters in some stories I wrote years ago, who have once again become a part of the phantasmagoria through which I can alone express my convictions about the world. I have the fancy[vi] that I read the name John Aherne among those of men prosecuted for making a disturbance at the first production of "The Play Boy," which may account for his animosity to myself.
W. B. Y.
Ballylee, Co. Galway, September 1918.
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THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
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IN MEMORY OF MAJOR ROBERT GREGORY
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AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH
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MEN IMPROVE WITH THE YEARS
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THE COLLAR-BONE OF A HARE
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UNDER THE ROUND TOWER
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