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A SONG by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: I THOUGHT NO MORE WAS NEEDED / YOUTH TO PROLONG
Last Line: THAT THE HEART GROWS OLD?
Subject(s): HEARTS; AGING;
I THOUGHT no more was needed
Youth to prolong
Than dumb-bell and foil
To keep the body young.
@3O who could have foretold
That the heart grows old?@1

Though I have many words,
What woman's satisfied,
I am no longer faint
Because at her side?
@3O who could have foretold
That the heart grows old?@1

I have not lost desire
But the heart that I had;
I thought 'twould burn my body
Laid on the death-bed,
@3For who could have foretold
That the heart grows old?@1



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