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After Long Silence Lyrics by William Butler Yeats

Words for Music Perhaps

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Speech after long silence; it is right,
All other lovers being estranged or dead,
Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade,
The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,
That we descant and yet again descant
Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song:
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.

About “After Long Silence” by William Butler Yeats

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"After Long Silence" appears on "Words for Music Perhaps".

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