A Prayer For Old Age - William Butler Yeats

[Larry Robinson]

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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