The friends that have it I do wrong
Whenever I remake a song
Should know what issue is at stake,
It is myself that I remake.


The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, II, preliminary poem (1908)


The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake.

The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake.

The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake.

The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake.