#To a Shade #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition ### Background details and bibliographic information To a Shade ========== 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: 590 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: E910001-008Availability [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 To a Shade in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) 36–38 ### 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 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). (September 1914) #### Use of language ##### Language: [EN] The poem is in English. ### Revision History * (2012-02-08) 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: E910001-008 ### To a Shade: Author: William Butler Yeats --- p.36 September 29th, 19141. If you have revisited the town, thin Shade, Whether to look upon your monument (I wonder if the builder has been paid) Or happier thoughted when the day is spent To drink of that salt breath out of the sea When grey gulls flit about instead of men, And the gaunt houses put on majesty: Let these content you and be gone again; For they are at their old tricks yet. A man Of your own passionate serving kind who had brought --- p.37 In his full hands what, had they only known, Had given their children's children loftier thought, Sweeter emotion, working in their veins Like gentle blood, has been driven from the place, And insult heaped upon him for his pains And for his open-handedness, disgrace; An old foul mouth that slandered you had set The pack upon him. Go, unquiet wanderer, And gather the Glasnevin coverlet About your head till the dust stops your ear, The time for you to taste of that salt breath And listen at the corners has not come; --- p.38 You had enough of sorrow before death— Away, away! You are safer in the tomb.