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THE WITCH by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: TOIL AND GROW RICH
Last Line: WITH DESPAIR?
Subject(s): GREED; WEALTH;
TOIL and grow rich,
What's that but to lie
With a foul witch
And after, drained dry,
To be brought
To the chamber where
Lies one long sought
With despair?



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