By W B Yeats
Submitted by B.K.
Date: 2016 Jul 25
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When You Are Old


When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And placed you upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars

W B Yeats


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