I heard the old, old men say, "All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters." — W.B. Yeats
I heard the old, old men say, "All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters."
1903
★ 3.6Provenance
Current citation
Yeats, William Butler. "The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Original citation
Yeats, William Butler. "The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water." In the Seven Woods. Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, 1903.
