“I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
O Do Not Love Too Long http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1549/ <br class="br">In The Seven Woods (1904) <br class="br">Context: Sweetheart, do not love too long:<br>I loved long and long,<br>And grew to be out of fashion<br>Like an old song.<br>All through the years of our youth<br>Neither could have known<br>Their own thought from the other's<br>We were so much at one.<br>But O, in a minute she changed--<br>O do not love too long,<br>Or you will grow out of fashion<br>Like an old song.