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— William Butler Yeats"When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright."
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Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.
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O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.
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