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  "title": "A fairy promise with a mortal price",
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      "exact": "Ride on the crest of the dishevelled tide",
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  "body_markdown": "The source is Yeats's verse play *The Land of Heart's Desire*, first published in 1894. Chesterton changes the first line: the early Stone & Kimball witness transcribed on Wikisource reads ‘Run on the top of the dishevelled tide’. The mountain line follows unchanged. The language occurs both in Maire Bruin's wish to escape domestic life and in the fairy child's subsequent offer to her. [Yeats, *The Land of Heart's Desire*](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Land_of_Heart%27s_Desire), speeches beginning ‘Come, faeries’ and ‘You love that great tall fellow’.\n\nThe invitation is spoken within a drama, not offered as a freestanding statement of Yeats's doctrine. Its costs and conditions matter to the challenge Chesterton makes in the following paragraph.\n\nA later *Poems* witness also preserves ‘Run on the top’; its June 1912 preface explicitly describes revisions to the play. It corroborates the wording but cannot by itself establish what Chesterton could have read before *Orthodoxy* appeared in 1908. Its publication notice independently dates the separate play to 1894. [Yeats, *Poems*, publication notice and 1912 preface](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38877/pg38877-images.html).",
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      "locator": "Maire Bruin: ‘Come, faeries’; The Child: ‘You love that great tall fellow’; final exchange beginning ‘I will go with you’",
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      "title": "W. B. Yeats, Poems, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., later printing listing reprints through 1920; Project Gutenberg 38877",
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    "The early text was inspected as an edition-linked transcription, not by collation of every facsimile page. The exact edition Chesterton used is unestablished; the wording difference is not evidence of deliberate alteration."
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