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W.B. Yeats (1865–1939).  Responsibilities and Other Poems.  1916.

51. A Friend’s Illness


SICKNESS brought me this 
Thought, in that scale of his: 
Why should I be dismayed 
Though flame had burned the whole 
World, as it were a coal,         5
Now I have seen it weighed 
Against a soul? 


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