Per Amica Silentia Lunae

OTHER WORKS OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1918, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1918.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

My Dear “Maurice”—You will remember that afternoon in Calvados last summer when your black Persian “Minoulooshe,” who had walked behind us for a good mile, heard a wing flutter in a bramble-bush? For a long time we called her endearing names in vain. She seemed resolute to spend her night among the brambles. She had interrupted a conversation, often interrupted before, upon certain thoughts so long habitual that I may be permitted to call them my convictions. When I came back to London my mind ran again and again to those conversations and I could not rest till I had written out in this little book all that I had said or would have said. Read it some day when “Minoulooshe” is asleep.
W. B. YEATS.
May 11, 1917.