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First Line: Sickness brought me this
Last Line: Against a soul?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Friendship; Sickness; Illness


SICKNESS brought me this
Thought, in that scale of his:
Why should I be dismayed
Though flame had burned the whole
World, as it were a coal,
Now I have seen it weighed
Against a soul?





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