

#Against unworthy Praise


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#### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition


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Against unworthy Praise
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Author: William Butler Yeats
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Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber, Juliette Maffet

Funded by School of History, University College, Cork 1. First draft.Extent of text: 517 words#### Publication


CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork  
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 (2012) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.  
Text ID Number: E910001-040Availability [RESTRICTED] 
The works by W. B. Yeats are in the public domain. This electronic text is available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of private or academic research and teaching.


#### Sources


**Bibliography**2. A bibliography is available online at the official web site of the Nobel Prize. See: http://nobelprize.org/nobel\_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bibl.html
**The edition used in the digital edition**2. William Butler Yeats Against unworthy Praise in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 97–98

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Created: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939).

 Date range: before 1916.#### Use of language


##### Language: [EN] The poem is in English.


### Revision History


* (2012-02-13) Beatrix Färber (ed.)

* File proofed (2), additions to encoding made; header completed; file parsed; SGML and HTML files created.
* (2012-02-01) Juliette Maffet (ed.)

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* (2012-01-23) Juliette Maffet (ed.)

* First proofing.
* (2012-01-18) Juliette Maffet (file capture)

* Text captured by scanning.




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#### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-040


### Against unworthy Praise: Author: William Butler Yeats




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p.97


1. O HEART, be at peace, because
  
Nor knave nor dolt can break
  
What's not for their applause,
  
Being for a woman's sake.
  
Enough if the work has seemed,
  
So did she your strength renew,
  
A dream that a lion had dreamed
  
Till the wilderness cried aloud,
  
A secret between you two,
  
Between the proud and the proud.
2. What, still you would have their praise!
  
But here's a haughtier text,
  
The labyrinth of her days
  
That her own strangeness perplexed;
  
And how what her dreaming gave
  
Earned slander, ingratitude,


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p.98


From self-same dolt and knave;
  
Aye, and worse wrong than these,
  
Yet she, singing upon her road,
  
Half lion, half child, is at peace.










