THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS [Illustration: _Emery Walker, Ph. sc._ _From a drawing by J. B. Yeats_] THE SECRET ROSE. ROSA ALCHEMICA. THE TABLES OF THE LAW. THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI. JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA :: BEING THE SEVENTH VOLUME OF THE COLLECTED WORKS IN VERSE & PROSE OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS :: IMPRINTED AT THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS STRATFORD-ON-AVON MCMVIII CONTENTS PAGE THE SECRET ROSE: DEDICATION 3 TO THE SECRET ROSE 5 THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE OUTCAST 7 OUT OF THE ROSE 20 THE WISDOM OF THE KING 31 THE HEART OF THE SPRING 42 THE CURSE OF THE FIRES AND OF THE SHADOWS 51 THE OLD MEN OF THE TWILIGHT 61 WHERE THERE IS NOTHING, THERE IS GOD 69 OF COSTELLO THE PROUD, OF OONA THE DAUGHTER OF DERMOTT AND OF THE BITTER TONGUE 78 ROSA ALCHEMICA 103 THE TABLES OF THE LAW 141 THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI 165 EARLY STORIES. JOHN SHERMAN 183 DHOYA 283 THE SECRET ROSE As for living, our servants will do that for us.—_Villiers de L’Isle Adam._ Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept, and wondered why she had twice been carried away.—_Leonardo da Vinci._