Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="AT_DAWN" id="AT_DAWN"></SPAN>At Dawn</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">I</span> CANNOT echo the old wish to die at morn, as darkness strays!<br/></span> <span class="i0">We have been glad together greeting some new-born and radiant days,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The earth would hold me, every day familiar things<br/></span> <span class="i6">Would weight me fast,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The stir, the touch of morn, the bird that on swift wings<br/></span> <span class="i6">Goes flitting past.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Some flower would lift to me its tender tear-wet face, and send its breath<br/></span> <span class="i0">To whisper of the earth, its beauty and its grace,<br/></span> <span class="i6">And combat death.<br/></span> <span class="i0">It would be light, and I would see in thy dear eyes<br/></span> <span class="i6">The sorrow grow.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Love, could I lift my own undimmed to paradise<br/></span> <span class="i6">And leave thee so!<br/></span> <span class="i0">A thousand chords would hold me down to this low sphere,<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_025" id="page_025"></SPAN>{25}</span><br/></span> <span class="i6">When thou didst grieve;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Ah! should death come upon morn’s rosy breast, I fear<br/></span> <span class="i6">I’d crave reprieve.<br/></span> <span class="i0">But when her gold all spent, the sad day takes her flight,<br/></span> <span class="i6">When shadows creep,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Then just to put my hand in thine and say, “Good night,”<br/></span> <span class="i6">And fall asleep.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p class="c"><ANTIMG src="images/deco.png" width-obs="25" alt="[Decorative image unavailable.]" /></p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_026" id="page_026"></SPAN>{26}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />