A Prayer For Old Age
Read 'A Prayer For Old Age' by 'William Butler Yeats' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone;
From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song's sake a fool?
I pray -- for word is out
And prayer comes round again --
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.
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