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Thursday, April 14, 2016

The Poet Pleads with His Friend For Old Friends

W.B. Yeats in 1908

Listen to:

The Poet Pleads with His Friend For Old Friends (:36)

by William Butler Yeats 

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode


Though you are in your shining days,
Voices among the crowd
And new friends busy with your praise,
Be not unkind or proud,
But think about old friends the most:
Time's bitter flood will rise,
Your beauty perish and be lost
For all eyes but these eyes.

(from The Wind Among the Reeds)

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