Exploring Yeats country

Yesterday we set out for Sligo on the west coast. This was the home of the poet W.B.Yeats. Here's a short poem of his. Perhaps it refers to the fact that he was in love with a woman, Maud Gonne, for almost 30 years. He asked her to marry him 5 times and was rejected every time. Finally, when he was 52 years old, he married another woman:

O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG

by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

SWEETHEART, do not love too long:
I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.

All through the years of our youth
Neither could have known
Their own thought from the other's,
We were so much at one.

But O, in a minute she changed--
O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.