Song of the wave / George Cabot Lodge [electronic text]

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Title
Song of the wave / George Cabot Lodge [electronic text]
Author
Lodge, George Cabot, 1873-1909
Publication
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
1898
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"Song of the wave / George Cabot Lodge [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAH7916.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.

Pages

Page 123

XXIX
LOVE

I

SADDER and more divine than human tears Born on the eyes to utter what is dumb, This simple silence when the heart grows numb Among the dead desires of perished years. Such silence quivers with the song it bears, Unsung within a fabric of old pain, Till in the dust of tired passions, plain Through wreaths of light, the naked truth appears. Then poised upon the moment thou canst lay Thy brow upon the Heart of Hearts, and feel The tide that ebbs and waxes through us all; Till from the silence, through the world's decay, A voice shall speak to thee like beaten steel, Lest on thy sea of sun the shadows fall.
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