William Butler Yeats – Verso Bisanzio / Sailing to Byzantium
Lucas Cranach, The fountain of Youth, 1546 That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another’s arms, birds in the trees,- Those dying generations – at their song,The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer longWhatever is begotten, born, and dies.Caught in that sensual music all neglectMonuments of unageing intellect.An …
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