#The Coming of Wisdom with Time #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition ### Background details and bibliographic information The Coming of Wisdom with Time ============================== Author: William Butler Yeats ---------------------------- ### File Description 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: 439 words#### Publication CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt (2012) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland. Text ID Number: E910001-043Availability [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 The Coming of Wisdom with Time in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 102 ### Encoding #### Project Description CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts #### Sampling Declaration The whole selection. #### Editorial Declaration ##### Correction Text has been proof-read twice. ##### Normalization The electronic text represents the edited text. Lines (or parts of them) reproduced in italics in the printed edition are tagged hi rend="ital". ##### Hyphenation The editorial practice of the hard-copy editor has been retained. ##### Segmentation div0= the individual poem, stanzas are marked lg. ##### Interpretation Names of persons (given names), and places are not tagged. Terms for cultural and social roles are not tagged. ### Profile Description Created: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Date range: before 1916.#### Use of language ##### Language: [EN] The poem is in English. ### Revision History * (2012-02-15) 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.) * Header created. * (2012-01-23) Juliette Maffet (ed.) * First proofing. * (2012-01-18) Juliette Maffet (file capture) * Text captured by scanning. --- #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-043 ### The Coming of Wisdom with Time: Author: William Butler Yeats --- p.102 1. Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.