In Jest, I Joke
'Bred to a harder thing than triumph’?
Failure then?
That I can do!
With a glint in my eye and a smile on my face
I can hold back the inadequacy
And as I look on failure
With heroic fortitude
I laugh at myself,
As wit picks me piece by piece
I laugh at myself;
In jest, I joke
Because what else can I do?
The quotation is from Yeat's 'To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing', from Responibilites (1914)
