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    Mosada A dramatic poem
    Mosada A dramatic poem
    Mosada A dramatic poem
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    Mosada A dramatic poem

    By W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Mosada A dramatic poem - W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mosada, by William Butler Yeats

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      Title: Mosada

      A dramatic poem

      Author: William Butler Yeats

      Release Date: August 14, 2010 [EBook #33430]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOSADA ***

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      Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document.

      MOSADA.

      A Dramatic Poem.

      BY

      W. B. YEATS.

      with a

      Frontispiece Portrait of the Author

      By J. B. YEATS.

      Reprinted from the DUBLIN UNIVERSITY REVIEW.

      DUBLIN:

      PRINTED BY SEALY, BRYERS, AND WALKER,

      94, 95 and 96 Middle Abbey Street.

      1886.

      MOSADA.

      "And my Lord Cardinal hath had strange days in his youth."

      Extract from a Memoir of the Fifteenth Century.

      Scene I.

      A Little Moorish Room in the Village of Azubia.

      In the centre of the room a chafing dish.

      Mosada. [alone] Three times the roses have grown less and less,

      As slowly Autumn climbed the golden throne

      Where sat old Summer fading into song,

      And thrice the peaches flushed upon the walls,

      And thrice the corn around the sickles flamed,

      Since 'mong my

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