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Title: The Trembling of the Veil

Author: William Butler Yeats

Release Date: August 23, 2010 [EBook #33505]

Language: English

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_THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL_

PRIVATELY PRINTED BOOKS

(_Uniform with this Volume_)

THE STORY-TELLER'S HOLIDAY (_George Moore_) _July 1918_

AVOWALS (_George Moore_) _September 1919_

ESTHER WATERS (_George Moore_) _October 1920_

THE COMING OF GABRIELLE (_George Moore_) _December 1920_

HELOISE AND ABELARD (_George Moore_) _February 1921_

NINE TALES FROM "LES CONTES DROLATIQUES" OF BALZAC
(_Translated by Robert Crawford_) _November 1921_

A PORTRAIT OF GEORGE MOORE IN A STUDY OF HIS WORK
(_John Freeman_) _May 1922_

THE CAULDRON OF ANNWN (_Thomas Evelyn Ellis_) _June 1922_

[Illustration: _Emery Walker Ph.oc. From a picture by Charles Shannon_]

THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL

By W. B. YEATS

LONDON
PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY BY
T. WERNER LAURIE, LTD.
1922

_To_
JOHN QUINN
_my friend and helper,
and friend and helper of certain people
mentioned in this book_.

GIFT

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL

_This edition consists of one thousand copies numbered and signed._

_This is No._ 24

PREFACE

_I have found in an old diary a quotation from Stephane Mallarme, saying
that his epoch was troubled by the trembling of the veil of the Temple. As
those words were still true, during the years of my life described in this
book, I have chosen The Trembling of the Veil for its title._

_Except in one or two trivial details, where I have the warrant of old
fri