> Some think it a matter of course that chance
Should starve good men and bad advance,
That if their neighbours figured plain,
As though upon a lighted screen,
No single story would they find
Of an unbroken happy mind,
A finish worthy of the start.
Young men know nothing of this sort,
Observant old men know it well;
And when they know what old books tell
And that no better can be had,
Know why an old man should be mad.
https://www.poetryverse.com/william-butler-yeats-poems/why-should-not-old-men-mad
> As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm’d in jollity,

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