What Then?

His chosen comrades thought at school
He must grow a famous man;
He thought the same and lived by rule,
All his twenties crammed with toil;
"What then?" sang Plato´s ghost."What then?"

Everything he wrote was read,
After certain years he won
Sufficient money for his need,
Friends that have been friends indeed;
"What then?" sang Plato´s ghost."What then?"

All his happier dreams came true -
A small old house, wife, daughter, son,
Grounds where plum and cabagge grew,
Poets and Wits about him drew;
"What then?" sang Plato´s ghost."What then?"

"The work is done," grown old he thought,
"According to my boyish plan;
Let the fools rage, I swerved in naught,
Something to perfection brought´;
But louder sang that ghost, "What then?"

W.B. Yeats

*mientras usaba el diccionario oxford para buscar naught.- nothing, encontré Neoplatonism transcribo :a philosopical and religious system developed by the followers of Plotinus in the third c., combinign Platonic thought with oriental mysticism.