ceitfianna: (poppies)
As I was looking at poems on this Veterans' Day, I found one I hadn't seen before that struck me and so I'm going to post it. I think it's worth putting here along with my other media places as I want to remember it and connect it to today.

On Being Asked For A War Poem by William Butler Yeats

I think it better that in times like these
A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth
We have no gift to set a statesman right;
He has had enough of medding who can please
A young girl in the indolence of her youth,
Or an old man upon a winter's night.

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