Responsibilities (1916)
by William Butler Yeats
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
From a pen-and-ink sketch by John B. Yeats, R.H.A.

RESPONSIBILITIES

AND OTHER POEMS

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RESPONSIBILITIES

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1916

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Copyright. 1911
By WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS


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Copyright, 1916
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Responsibilities, 1912–1914—

From the Green Helmet and other Poems, 1909–1912—

'In dreams begins responsibility.'
Old Play.

'How am I fallen from myself, for a long time now
I have not seen the Prince of Chang in my dreams.'
Khoung-fou-tseu.

RESPONSIBILITIES

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