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A Yeats Favorite

Barroom HeroBarroom Hero Posts: 76
edited July 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
I heard Tommy Clancy give a rendition of this poem on one of The Clancy Brothers' live albums. The inflections and pauses he adds the poem make it even more powerful than it usually is. To me, this poem captures a truth about the loss of youth to old age, and how that process affects love.

http://webhome.idirect.com/~francisc/yeats/airpoem.htm
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