God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone.


A Prayer For Old Age, st. 1. - A Full Moon in March (1935)

William Butler Yeats Quotes

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone.