This was the opening poem in The Tower, and its narrator wishes to be gathered into the "artifice of eternity".  
This was the opening poem in The Tower, and its narrator wishes to be gathered into the "artifice of eternity".  This poem begins in a place surrounded by "monuments of unaging intellect," where "an aged man is but a paltry thing". Though the beginning seems to complain of birds in the trees at their song, the end expresses a desire to "set upon a golden bough to sing". The narrator has gone to a place where his heart can be consumed by sages represented by the gold mosaic of a wall. In reality, the poet never traveled to the place mentioned in the title. Name this William Butler Yeats ["Yates"] poem beginning "that is no country for old men".
This was the opening poem in The Tower, and its narrator wishes to be gathered into the "artifice of eternity".  
“Sailing to Byzantium”