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In the Special Collections of Emory’s Woodruff Library is a presentation copy of Poems (1899) inscribed “To Lady Gregory/May 10, 1899/ W. B. Yeats”. On the preliminary leaves of this copy are two holograph poems, including an initialled quatrain, “The Song of Heffernan the Blind: a translation”:
I often am in Shrone hill, in Conroy is my bed I grind an old quern, I grind it for my bread, And Teig and Nora with me, no other souls than these; I grind an old quern & them I do not please.1
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© 1986 Warwick Gould
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Nash, N.R. (1986). Yeats and Heffernan the Blind. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 4. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06838-8_16
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