I heard the old, old men say, “Everything alters, And one by one we drop away.” — W.B. Yeats

I heard the old, old men say, “Everything alters, And one by one we drop away.”

1903
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Yeats, William Butler. "The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
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Yeats, William Butler. "The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water." In the Seven Woods. Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, 1903.

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