Girl's Song

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

I went out alone To sing a song or two, My fancy on a man, And you know who.

Another came in sight That on a stick relied To hold himself upright; I sat and cried.

And that was all my song - When everything is told, Saw I an old man young Or young man old?

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