Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, Their ancient, gl… - William Butler Yeats

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Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish symbolist poet, dramatist and mystic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He compiled the Oxford Book of Modern Verse.

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Alternative Names: W. B. Yeats • William Yeats • W.B. Yeats • WBY

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Come let us mock at the wise;
With all those calendars whereon
They fixed old aching eyes,
They never saw how seasons run,
And now but gape at the sun.

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,
The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,
And all that famous harmony of leaves,
Had blotted out man’s image and his cry.

Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay. - William Butler Yeats

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