“SINGING GO I”

Singing go I, seeking for ever a song

Sung long ago; I ask no more to hear

Her voice that sang — for I should do her wrong,

Had I the power, to bring her once more near —

Near to the earth, its sorrow or its joy,

To drag her back into the arms of pain

And Love and all the April flowers again

And all her little dreams of heaven destroy.

Have I the heart? Ah! had I but the song,

The nightingale would listen and all things

That talk in waterfalls and trees and strings

Would hush themselves to listen as I sang,

Had I the song.