Original sentence: The epigraph at the top of the poem is taken from Thomas Mann,"In our time the destiny of man presents its meanings in political terms," which was quoted in a copy of the Yale Review with notes by Yeats which was attached to the first typescript draft of the "Politics".The last two lines of the poem, "But oh that I were young again/ And held her in my arms", is likely taken from a quatrain of the cited by McLeash in a 1938 article in the Yale Review which was intended to exemplify the use of "living tongue" by "the anonymous poet of Western Wind":.The poem itself is short, containing only 12 lines
Edited sentence: The epigraph at the top of the poem is taken from Thomas Mann,"In our time the destiny of man presents its meanings in political terms".The last two lines of the poem, "But oh that I were young again/ And held her in my arms", is likely taken from a quatrain cited by McLeash in a 1938 article in the Yale Review intended to exemplify the use of "living tongue" by "the anonymous poet of Western Wind":.The phrase had been quoted in a copy of the Yale Review and Yeats wrote notes on that edition and attached them to the first typescript draft of the "Politics"