Today is the birthday of poet William Butler Yeats. He was born June 13, 1865, in Sandymount, Republic of Ireland, he died January 28, 1939 in Menton, France.

A poem of his that I have always liked and that may be apprpriate now that he gone but still remembered…

When You are Old

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.