So Like Still Water

In Ireland, even the bottled water is literary!

“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”

― William Butler Yeats
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water

I heard the old, old men say,
"Everything alters,
And one by one we drop away."
They had hands like claws, and their knees
Were twisted like the old thorn-trees
By the waters.
I heard the old, old men say,
"All that's beautiful drifts away
Like the waters."

― William Butler (1865 - 1939)

P.S.
Lots More Yeats
"accustomed, ceremonious" ~ "take down this book"