AFTER LONG SILENCE. Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead, Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade, The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night, That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant. After Long Silence, by W.B. Yeats from the collection: The Winding Stair and Other Poems published/ written in 1933 ( http://www.uv.es/~fores/poesia) |