William Butler Yeats Quotes About Old Age
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.
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Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.
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You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?
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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?
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