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A STICK OF INCENSE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHENCE DID ALL THAT FURY COME?
Last Line: But liked the way his finger smelt
Subject(s): BIBLE; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;

Whence did all that fury come?
From empty tomb or Virgin womb?
Saint Joseph thought the world would melt
But liked the way his finger smelt.



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