Teks asli (Inggris)

SYNGE AND THE IRELAND OF HIS TIME BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS WITH A NOTE CONCERNING A WALK THROUGH CONNEMARA WITH HIM BY JACK BUTLER YEATS CHURCHTOWN DUNDRUM MCMXI PREFACE At times during Synge's last illness, Lady Gregory and I would speak of his work and always find some pleasure in the thought that unlike ourselves, who had made our experiments in public, he would leave to the world nothing to be wished away--nothing that was not beautiful or powerful in itself