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    The Hour Glass
    The Hour Glass
    The Hour Glass
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    The Hour Glass

    By W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Hour Glass - W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Hour Glass, by W. B. Yeats

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      Title: The Hour Glass

      Author: W. B. Yeats

      Release Date: February, 2005 [EBook #7448]

      Last Updated: February 7, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HOUR GLASS ***

      Produced by Nichole Apostola and David Widger

      THE HOUR-GLASS

      A MORALITY

      By W. B. Yeats

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      THE HOUR-GLASS

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

           A WISE MAN

           A FOOL

           SOME PUPILS

           AN ANGEL

           THE WISE MAN'S WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN

      THE HOUR-GLASS

      SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room. A desk and a chair in the middle. An hour-glass on a bracket near the door. A creepy stool near it. Some benches. The WISE MAN sitting at his desk.

      WISE MAN [turning over the pages of a book]. Where is that passage I am to explain to my pupils to-day? Here it is, and the book says that it was written by a beggar on the walls of Babylon: There are two living countries, the one visible and the one invisible; and when it is winter with us it is summer in that country; and when the November winds are up among us it is lambing-time there. I wish that my pupils had asked me to explain any other passage, for this is a hard passage. [The FOOL comes in and stands at the door, holding out his hat. He has a pair of shears in the other hand.] It sounds to me like foolishness; and yet that cannot be, for the writer of this book, where I have found so much knowledge, would not have set it by itself on this page, and surrounded it with so many images and so many deep colors and so much fine gilding, if it had been foolishness.

      FOOL. Give me a penny.

      WISE MAN. [Turns to another page.] Here he has written: The learned in old times forgot the visible country. That I

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