"I heard the old, old men say, "Every thing alters, And one by one we drop away." They had hands like claws, and their knees Were twisted like the old thorn trees By the waters. I heard the old, old men say, "All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters.""
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W. B. Yeats, The Old Men admiring themselves in the Water. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96
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