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“A Friend’s Illness” by
W. B. Yeats
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(
13 Jun 1865
–
28 Jan 1939
)
Sickness brought me this
Thought, in that scale of his:
Why should I be dismayed
Though flame had burned the whole
World, as it were a coal,
Now I have seen it weighed
Against a soul?