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Picture and book remain, An acre of green grass For air and exercize, Now strength and body goes; Midnight, an old house Where nothing stirs but a mouse. My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination, Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone Can make the truth known. Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call; A mind Michael Angelo knew That can pierce the clouds, Or inspired by frenzy Shake the dead in their shrouds; Forgotten else by mankind, An old man's eagle mind. W.B.Yeats [1865-1939], Irish poet and playright of international reputation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Published under the provision of U.S. Code, Title 17, section 107. |