Aged eyes, that one were with passion lit
\nNow are dark, as if no longer there
\nIs life, much less passion, lost in thoughts
\nOf times past they refuse to share
\nWe look on the follies of the youth
\nCaught in passions throes, and we forget
\nThat these aged eyes once were wild and young
\nPerhaps in their mind they still are yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aged eyes, that one were with passion lit Now are dark, as if no longer there Is life, much less passion, lost in thoughts Of times past they refuse to share We look on the follies of the youth Caught in passions throes, and we forget That these aged eyes …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1160,640,1145],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-age","tag-passing-of-life","tag-passing-of-time","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-fZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2444,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/dawn-breaks-as-yeats-goes-to-sleep\/","url_meta":{"origin":991,"position":0},"title":"Dawn Breaks as Yeats Goes to Sleep","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"18th December 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeats died before the outbreak of war, and his Nobel prizes and international fame was most seen through the Versailles era, with the illusion of peace unbroken while he was alive. 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