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A Prayer For Old Age

God guard me from those those thoughts men think
In the mind alone,
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow bone;

From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song's sake a fool.

I pray - for fashion's word is out
And prayer comes round again -
That I may seem though I die old
A foolish, passionate man.


WB Yeats
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