William Butler Yeats

“ The great stage curtain about to drop,
If worthy their prominent part in the play,
Do not break up their lines to weep.
They know that Hamlet and Lear are gay;
Gaiety transfiguring all that dread.
All men have aimed at, found and lost ”

“ All perform their tragic play,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
That's Ophelia, that Cordelia; ”

“ Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay. ”