WBYeats on NOT making IT in this world, being meant to console me and thee and anyone else who is needy in this regard
Michael Eisenstadt
austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Sat Aug 7 11:18:18 2004
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To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing=20
NOW all the truth is out,=20
Be secret and take defeat=20
>From any brazen throat,=20
For how can you compete,=20
Being honour bred, with one =20
Who, were it proved he lies,=20
Were neither shamed in his own=20
Nor in his neighbours' eyes?=20
Bred to a harder thing=20
Than Triumph, turn away =20
And like a laughing string=20
Whereon mad fingers play=20
Amid a place of stone,=20
Be secret and exult,=20
Because of all things known =20
That is most difficult.
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