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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Feats epitaph i just a part of the mystery editor s note Nobel laureate William duller Veals died in the South of France in 1939, but world War ii delayed the return of his remain to Ireland for almost a decade. Now on the 50lh anniversary of his death a great mystery hover Over  Ireland. Did the French undertakers dig up the wrong body or Send just any old body if so where is the Irish Bard and what does thai epitaph on his Tombstone meant by Hugh a. Mulligan. Associated press fifty years after his death tourists pay scant heed to the Brief mysterious epitaph William Butler Yeats had carved or his Tombstone in the Little churchyard Indium Tiff Ireland cast a cold Eye online in deals. H lineman pass Byl Lasi year 50000 visitors from As far away As Japan and Australia trooped into the Church of Ireland graveyard under Bare Ben Hulben s head the Flat lopped Mountain thai like a huge grand piano Wilh the lid Down echoes the winds and Waves of the wild Atlantic. Some tarried Well thumbed volumes by the Nobel laureate regarded by Many As the most Sublime poet of the English language since Milton even on the foulest wettest Day if i leave the Church open  sure to come by and sign the guest Book says the Rev. Robert Hayman an american from san Francisco by Way of Seattle who is the Rector of  the Rural protest and Parish where Yeats great Grandfather served. Ricord numbers  for this. Year s Niken Lentol Observance of the Poi t i death. In August scholars and lecturers from Irmund the world will gather. For Chi 30lh session of the Yeats International summer school. Tor something to while postcards Home Aboul besides the Moil wild and Beautiful scenery under a sky Ever loaded and fantastic Wilh flying Clouds As Yeats described it there is renewed controversy Over whether i Poel actually lies beneath the epitaph he composed four month before his death in 1939. For certain his wife is buried there memorialized by a smaller Stone engraved George which also mys Lirios most visitors. Like i plague of locusts that question of Tho wrong body in the grave comes up every seven years scoffed Angus Cantwell president elect of the Council of the Yeats society which administers his Library and memorial in the old Royal Bank building in Sligo. Willie probably would have in Oye  
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