Talk:To Ireland in the Coming Times

This is the edited 1925 version of the poem. Maybe this should be noted somewhere on the page. The original 1892 version differs quite a lot in the second half of the first stanza.

The stanza originally read:

Know that I would accounted be True brother of that company Who sang to sweeten Ireland’s wrong, Ballad and story, rann and song; Nor be I any less of them, Because the red rose bordered hem Of her whose history began Before God made the angelic clan, Trails all about the unwritten page, For in the world’s first blossoming age The light fall of her flying feet Made Ireland’s heart begin to beat, And still the starry candles flare To help her light foot here and there, And still the thoughts of Ireland brood, Upon her holy quietude.

(Source: Yeats in the coming times ('To Ireland in the Coming Times') By: Campbell, M (Campbell, M), ESSAYS IN CRITICISM, Volume: 53 Issue: 1 Pages: 10-32, DOI: 10.1093/eic/53.1.10, Published:‏ JAN 2003)