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W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916.

19. The Witch

I

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.