"For I am old and gray ..."

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There is a poem whose first line is : "For I am old and gray ...". does anyone know the author and/or title of this poem?

-- Robert Marlow (drmarlow@HiWAAY.net), December 27, 1998

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"When You are Old and Gray" 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.

-- Prabal Ray (Prabal.Ray@uk.abnamro.com), January 01, 1999.


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