When you are old, Yeats original text When you are old, full text

When you are old, freckled, and sleepy,

take a nap by the stove, take down this book,

read it slowly, and remember your dreams. In the past, your eyes

looked soft and reflected deeply;

How many people loved you when you were charming and charming,

loving your beauty came out of falsehood or true love ,

But only one person loves the sincerity of your soul,

loves the sad wind and frost on your fading face;

bends down, in the blazing red by the hearth,

murmuring sadly how Cupid has fled,

wandering on the hilltops overhead,

leaving his face Disappeared among the stars.