Copyright, 1918 and 1919, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Copyright, 1918 and 1919

By

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1919.

J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

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PREFACE

This book is, in part, a reprint of The Wild Swans at Coole, printed a year ago on my sister's hand-press at Dundrum, Co. Dublin. I have not, however, reprinted a play which may be a part of a book of new plays suggested by the dance plays of Japan, and I have added a number of new poems. Michael Robartes and John Aherne, whose names occur in one or other of these, are characters in some stories I wrote years ago, who have once again become a part of the phantasmagoria through which I can alone express my convictions about the world. I have the fancy[vi] that I read the name John Aherne among those of men prosecuted for making a disturbance at the first production of "The Play Boy," which may account for his animosity to myself.

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W. B. Y.

 Ballylee, Co. Galway, September 1918.

Ballylee, Co. Galway

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CONTENTS

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The Wild Swans at Coole

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