The Moods by W. B. Yeats January 30, 2011 by Every Writer W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) by George Charles Beresford The Moods by W. B. Yeats Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; What one in the rout Of the fire-born moods, Has fallen away?