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Poetry reading of When You Are Old by W.B. Yeats. Classic poem readings uploaded at midday (UK) every day.

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Full poem text, public domain (also available in subtitles):

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

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved 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.

When You Are Old - written by W.B. Yeats
Narrated by Jordan Harling

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Background music:

https://musopen.org/music/1996/cyril-scott/lotus-land-op-47-no-1/

Lotus Land, Op. 47 no. 1 - composed by Cyril Scott performed by Markus Staab (CC BY 3.0)

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Author image:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AYeats_Boughton.jpg

By Alice Boughton (Whyte's) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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