Men Improve With Years (Poem by William Butler Yeats) circa 1899 - song version w/text

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
(13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939)
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
Music in a 1980s style music and vocals with special effects tracks added by Tony Gerber
Poem Written circa 1899.
LYRIC POEM:
Men Improve With The Years
By William Butler Yeats
I am worn out with dreams;
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams;
And all day long I look
Upon this lady's beauty
As though I had found in book
A pictured beauty,
Pleased to have filled the eyes
Or the discerning ears,
Delighted to be but wise,
For men improve with the years;
And yet and yet
Is this my dream, or the truth?
O would that we had met
When I had my burning youth;
But I grow old among dreams,
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams.
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