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Published by Hamish Hamilton 2003

Copyright © Paul Murray, 2003

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Excerpts from the following poems and essays by W. B. Yeats printed by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd on behalf of Michael B. Yeats: ‘Three Marching Songs’; ‘Lapis Lazuli’; ‘The Second Coming’; ‘Byzantium’; ‘The Stolen Child’; ‘Among School Children’; ‘The Lover Tells of the Rose in his Heart’; ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’; ‘A General Introduction to My Work’. ‘Over The Rainbow’, words by E. Y. Harburg, music by Harold Arlen © 1938 EMI Catalogue Partnership, EMI Feist Catalog Inc and EMI United Partnership Ltd, USA. Worldwide print rights controlled by Warner Bros Publications Inc/IMP Ltd. Reproduced by permission of International Music Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. ‘Laura’ © 1944 Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved

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ISBN: 978-0-14-194203-2