Tuesday, June 01, 2010

William Butler Yeats

There is something very old and wise about this Irishman's poetry!

The Coming of Wisdom with Time

Though leaves are many, the root is one;

through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth. 

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