Last evening, when listening to the late Paul Violi’s friends, colleagues, students and admirers read his poems, I thought of the last two lines of Yeats’s “The Municipal Gallery Revisited.” Here are the culminating lines of this multi-part poem. DL
You that would judge me, do not judge alone
This book or that, come to this hallowed place
Where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon;
Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace;
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
From the archive; first posted December 2, 2011
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Author: The Best American Poetry
