by

William Butler Yeats

Sung by the people of Faery over Diarmuid and Grania, in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech.

  We who are old, old and gay,
  O so old!
  Thousands of years, thousands of years,
  If all were told:
  
  Give to these children, new from the world,
  Silence and love;
  And the long dew-dropping hours of the night,
  And the stars above:
  
  Gie to these children, new from the world,
  Rest far from men.
  Is anything better, anything better?
  Tell us it then:
  
  Us who are old, old and gay,
  O so old!
  Thousands of years, thousands of years,
  If all were told.
  

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