Poetry Friday - W.B. Yeats

A fun Yeats poem that I do not teach because there are so many poems by Yeats they "should have read" that I couldn't justify it. But a fun one for Poetry Friday.

"The Scholars"

BALD heads forgetful of their sins,
Old, learned, respectable bald heads
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That young men, tossing on their beds,
Rhymed out in love’s despair	5
To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.
They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end;
Wear out the carpet with their shoes
Earning respect; have no strange friend;
If they have sinned nobody knows.	10
Lord, what would they say
Should their Catullus walk that way?