I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost?

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

The afterlife Death Life

Author

W.B. Yeats

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." The Green Helmet and Other Poems. The MacMillan Company, 1910.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

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