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W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916.

51. A Friend’s Illness

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?