Speech after long silence; it is right,
All other lovers being estranged or dead…
That we descant and yet again descant
Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song:
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.

Quotation #39624

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The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933], Words for Music Perhaps, XVII, After Long Silence