Monday, August 05, 2024
Maybe What They Say Is True
W.B. Yeats (1865-1948), "Politics," Poems (London: Macmillan, 1989), p. 472:
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'In our time the destiny of man presents its
meanings in political terms.' — THOMAS MANN.
How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms.
