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The Pilgrim Soul

8/17/2014

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The Pilgrim Soul


This is one of my favourite poems.

Its
language is simple.

Its
message is universal.

A
nd the tone is of someone who knows the value of loving with irony.


Alberico Collina


When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

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;

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 amid a crowd of stars.
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