A Friend's Illness

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

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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