The american writer John Fante put these lines from a poem by Yeats in his book
"Dreams from Bunker Hill"
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.
"Homemade Melancholy"
original artwork by Werner Hornung"
Engagement for Beauty
