• When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.

    William Butler Yeats: When a man grows old his joy
Grows more deep day after day,
His empty heart is full at length
But he has need of all that strength
Because of the increasing Night
That opens her mystery and fright.
    William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.210, Simon and Schuster