SONG OF SONGS

SONG OF SONGS

Myheart is like a shady groveThat harbors, for a June,My thoughts, like song-birds mad with loveUnder the moon.On all the windy boughs they sitAnd in the blowinggrass—But one bird silently enters it,And sings, alas!Then all the rest grow sad and stillThat made a happy noise:There is no sound on all the hillBut that one voice,Faint with the memories in hisbreast—It is the thought ofyou—And when it ceases, all the restAre silent, too.

Myheart is like a shady groveThat harbors, for a June,My thoughts, like song-birds mad with loveUnder the moon.On all the windy boughs they sitAnd in the blowinggrass—But one bird silently enters it,And sings, alas!Then all the rest grow sad and stillThat made a happy noise:There is no sound on all the hillBut that one voice,Faint with the memories in hisbreast—It is the thought ofyou—And when it ceases, all the restAre silent, too.

Myheart is like a shady groveThat harbors, for a June,My thoughts, like song-birds mad with loveUnder the moon.

Myheart is like a shady grove

That harbors, for a June,

My thoughts, like song-birds mad with love

Under the moon.

On all the windy boughs they sitAnd in the blowinggrass—But one bird silently enters it,And sings, alas!

On all the windy boughs they sit

And in the blowinggrass—

But one bird silently enters it,

And sings, alas!

Then all the rest grow sad and stillThat made a happy noise:There is no sound on all the hillBut that one voice,

Then all the rest grow sad and still

That made a happy noise:

There is no sound on all the hill

But that one voice,

Faint with the memories in hisbreast—It is the thought ofyou—And when it ceases, all the restAre silent, too.

Faint with the memories in hisbreast—

It is the thought ofyou—

And when it ceases, all the rest

Are silent, too.


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