Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems

<h2><SPAN name="THE_DEATH_OF_LOVE" id="THE_DEATH_OF_LOVE"></SPAN>THE DEATH OF LOVE</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">So Love is dead, the Love we knew of old!<br/></span> <span class="i1">And in the sorrow of our hearts' hushed halls<br/></span> <span class="i1">A lute lies broken and a flower falls;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Love's house is empty and his hearth is cold.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Lone in dim places, where sweet vows were told.<br/></span> <span class="i1">In walks grown desolate, by ruined walls,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Beauty decays; and on their pedestals<br/></span> <span class="i0">Dreams crumble, and th' immortal gods are mould.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Music is slain or sleeps; one voice alone,<br/></span> <span class="i1">One voice awakes, and like a wandering ghost<br/></span> <span class="i2">Haunts all the echoing chambers of the Past&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">The voice of Memory, that stills to stone<br/></span> <span class="i1">The soul that hears; the mind that, utterly lost,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Before its beautiful presence stands aghast.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />