[Marion Shore]

When You Are Old

W.B. Yeats

Two Versions

When you are old and gray and feel like shit,
and snoring by the fire, take down this book--
Oh never mind. It's hardly worth a look.
Besides, you'll probably drool all over it.

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When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And throw it in the fire and curse that schnook
who left you for a younger girl, the creep!