jeudi 12 mars 2009

The Lover pleads with his friends for old friends

Though you are in your shining days,
Voices among the crowd
And new friends busy with your praise,
Be not unkind or proud,
But think about old friends the most :
Time’s bitter flood will rise,
Your beauty perish and be lost
For all eyes but these eyes.

W.B. YEATS, The wind among the reeds, 1899.

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