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THE LOVER PLEADS WITH HIS FRIENDS FOR OLD FRIENDS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: THOUGH YOU ARE IN YOUR SHINING DAYS
Last Line: FOR ALL EYES BUT THESE EYES.
Subject(s): FRIENDSHIP;
Though you are in your shining days,
Voices among the crowd
And new friends busy with your praise,
Be not unkind or proud,
But think about old friends the most:
Time's bitter flood will rise,
Your beauty perish and be lost
For all eyes but these eyes.


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