A Prayer For Old Age
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone;
From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song's sake a fool?
I pray-for word is out
And prayer comes round again-
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.
William Butler Yeats
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