When You Are Old

by W. B. Yeats (1892) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A love note for old age: one man loved not your bright face but the pilgrim soul moving behind it.

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 had once, and of their shadows deep;
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Themes: love · admiration