"After long silence"
Speech after long silence;it is right,
All other lovers being estranged or dead,
Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade,
The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,
That we descant and yet again descant
Upon the surpreme theme of art and song:
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.
After a long silence reopened; yes, all the
other lovers are gone or dead,
the unfriendly lights are shaded,
the unfriendly The night is blocked by curtains.
Yes, we talked and talked, talked and talked, and talked about
the highest theme of art and song:
physical aging means wisdom: when we were young
we used to love each other without knowing it.
——William Butler Yeats
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