Michael Robartes and the dancerYeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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Michael Robartes and the dancer
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
English poetry -- Irish authors
power’ they have said to me,” (writes Robartes) “‘will be with us,
who are as like one another as the grains of sand, but when the
revelation comes it will not come to the poor but to the great and
learned and establish again for two thousand years prince & vizier.
Why should we resist? Have not our wise men marked it upon the sand,
and it is because of these marks, made generation after generation
by the old for the young, that we are named Judwalis.’”
Their name means makers of measures, or as we would say, of diagrams.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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with _underscores_. A description has been added for a line drawing
in the original text. The nested quotation marks near the end of the
Notes have been corrected from the printed text.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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