THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER

by: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

      HEARD the old, old men say,
      'Everything alters,
      And one by one we drop away.'
      They had hands like claws, and their knees
      Were twisted like the old thorn-trees
      By the waters.
      'All that's beautiful drifts away
      Like the waters.'

"The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water" is reprinted from In the Seven Woods. W.B. Yeats. New York: Macmillan, 1903.

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