| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Scholars | | By William Butler Yeats |
| | | BALD heads forgetful of their sins, | |
| Old, learned, respectable bald heads | |
| Edit and annotate the lines | |
| That young men, tossing on their beds, | |
| Rhymed out in love’s despair | 5 |
| To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear. | |
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| They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end; | |
| Wear out the carpet with their shoes | |
| Earning respect; have no strange friend; | |
| If they have sinned nobody knows: | 10 |
| Lord, what would they say | |
| Should their Catullus walk that way! | | | | |
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