An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
In the Collected W. B. Yeats, which my eighth-grade class was studying in my absence, I had underlined and starred these lines: An aged man is but a paltry thing A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing.
Here in the two finest pieces in the book - "Sailing to Byzantium," which comes first, and the title-poem, which follows it – his dismay has passed into something at once more poignant and more triumphant: An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick.
And aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
"An aged man is but a paltry thing, / A tattered coat upon a stick, unless / Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing".
Jealousy poisons the atmosphere, and things get uncomfortable when Justine's nocturnal blood-hunts attract the attention of the police, but for the most part the eccentric senior citizens of "Linger Awhile" seem energized by their sci-fi experiment in nostalgia, happy to trade in their tattered-coat-upon-a-stickness for a lustier, more colorful, wider-screened sort of existence.
Posey's rebooted Smith is an agent of aimless chaos who assumes the name upon swiping a coat from a passenger injured in the mothership's collapse; then she purloins his family's spacecraft.
Our observations on cross sections of golden dragon Hexi painting fragments suggest that Hexi painting has a ground layer that makes a distinction between two layers with completely different base materials: a fiber (organic) layer and a coat (inorganic) layer upon it, the latter of which often is further divisible.
"An aged man is but a paltry thing/A tattered coat upon a stick, unless/Soul clap its hands and sing," Yeats wrote in "Sailing to Byzantium," the poem whose first line Cormac McCarthy borrowed as the title of his 2005 novel, "No Country for Old Men," which was made into the Oscar-winning movie by Joel and Ethan Coen.
It will be actively cooled and present a beryllium coating upon ITER requirement.
