time and the world

This is probably asking for it on May Eve, but it wouldn't be poetry month without Yeats, even if I can't post "Sailing to Byzantium" again. And this is, I think, a good poem on which to conclude. Maybe next year I'll be more versatile -- or at least, as organized as I was last year.

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
Laugh heart again in the gray twilight,
Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

Your mother Eire is always young,
Dew ever shining and twilight gray;
Though hope fall from you and love decay,
Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.

Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
And river and stream work out their will;

And God stands winding His lonely horn,
And time and the world are ever in flight;
And love is less kind than the gray twilight,
And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.

~William Butler Yeats, "Into the Twilight," The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899.