"When You Are Old"
by W.B. Yeats

When you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take this book;
And slowly read, and dream the soft look,
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And love your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead,
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.