<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">Twenty Hundred and Nineteen</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65); min-height: 23px;" class=""><font color="#010101" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">Ah, Yeats, whom we had put away </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">with the old poems,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">your lines carefully marked from</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">our study long ago</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">with the indomitable Ms. Elizabeth Drew</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">at the summer college </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">on the green Vermont hilltop,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65); min-height: 23px;" class=""><font color="#010101" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">so many lines part of our native tongue.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">we scarcely remember it was you</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">who first told us “the center cannot hold.”</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">But now, “Nineteen Hundred Nineteen”</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">is put down before us <br class="">
and we recognize once again</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">your prescient genius.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65); min-height: 23px;" class=""><font color="#010101" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">A century ago. To the year.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class="">And now we read with new/old eyes</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font color="#010101" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 65, 65);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><font color="#010101" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Fran Claggett</font></span></div></div></body></html>