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A Friend's Illness
From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912)
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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,
Now I have seen it weighed
Against a soul?
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Yeats, W. B. “A Friend's Illness.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/100/.
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Yeats, W. B. “A Friend's Illness.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/100/.
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