William Butler Yeats (Уильям Батлер Йейтс)

A Prayer for Old Age

God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone;

From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song's sake a fool?

I pray -- for word is out
And prayer comes round again --
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man. 

1. The Ballad of Moll Magee
2. Beautiful Lofty Things
3. Dream of a Blessed Spirit
4. The Magi
5. Crazy Jane Reproved

Madison Cawein (Мэдисон Кавейн) A Prayer for Old Age ("These are the things which I would ask of Time")

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