When You Are Old

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read and dream of the soft look
Your eyes once had, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face among the crowd of stars.

-William Butler Yeats

 

(Photograph of Ed &and
Belle Adams, my grandparents)
Click below to hear Ed Adams sing
"Sweet Molly Mallone"

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