FROM THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS, 1909-1912-- His Dream 85 A Woman Homer sung 87 The Consolation 89 No Second Troy 91 Reconciliation 92 King and No King 94 Peace 96 Against Unworthy Praise 97 The Fascination of What's Difficult 99 A Drinking Song 101 The Coming of Wisdom with Time 102 On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians 103 To a Poet 104 The Mask 105 Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation 106 At the Abbey Theatre 108 These are the Clouds 110 At Galway Races 112 A Friend's Illness 113 All Things can tempt me 114 The Young Man's Song 115 THE HOUR-GLASS--1912 117 NOTES 181 '_In dreams begins responsibility._' _Old Play._ '_How am I fallen from myself, for a long time now_ _I have not seen the Prince of Chang in my dreams._' _Khoung-fou-tseu._ RESPONSIBILITIES _Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain_ _Somewhere in ear-shot for the story's end,_ _Old Dublin merchant 'free of ten and four'_ _Or trading out of Galway into Spain;_ _And country scholar, Robert Emmet's friend,_ _A hundred-year-old memory to the poor;_ _Traders or soldiers who have left me blood_ _That has not passed through any huxter's loin,_ _Pardon, and you that did not weigh the cost,_ _Old Butlers when you took to horse and stood_ _Beside the brackish waters of the Boyne_ _Till your bad master blenched and all was lost;_ _You merchant skipper that leaped overboard_ _After a ragged hat in Biscay Bay,_ _You most of all, silent and fierce old man_ _Because you were the spectacle that stirred_ _My fancy, and set my boyish lips to say_ _'Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun';_ _Pardon that for a barren passion's sake,_ _Although I have come close on forty-nine_ _I have no child, I have nothing but a book,_ _Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine._ _January 1914._ THE GREY ROCK