ACQUAINTANCE; companion; <br />One dear brilliant woman; <br />The best-endowed, the elect, <br />All by their youth undone, <br />All, all, by that inhuman <br />Bitter glory wrecked. <br />But I have straightened out <br />Ruin, wreck and wrack; <br />I toiled long years and at length <br />Came to so deep a thought <br />I can summon back <br />All their wholesome strength. <br />What images are these <br />That turn dull-eyed away, <br />Or Shift Time's filthy load, <br />Straighten aged knees, <br />Hesitate or stay? <br />What heads shake or nod?<br /><br />William Butler Yeats<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-results-of-thought/
