ТЫ думаешь, что мне на склоне лет
И страсть, и вожделение во вред;
Но в юности пришпорили не раз
Они мой поэтический экстаз.
The Spur
YOU think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attention upon my old age;
They were not such a plague when I was young;
What else have I to spur me into song.
By William Butler Yeats.