Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="SHADOWS" id="SHADOWS"></SPAN>Shadows</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“O sweet white rose, I pray you tell<br/></span> <span class="i2">Why in that fragrant heart of thine<br/></span> <span class="i0">Where golden sunbeams seldom fell,<br/></span> <span class="i0">All grace and gladness seems to dwell,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And summer fragrance hold its shrine?”<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“Sweet, am I,” west wind, sweet and white,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Then leave me in the shadow pray,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Here soft dews bathe me all the night,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And no harsh sunbeam comes at light,<br/></span> <span class="i2">To kiss the great white tears away.”<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p class="c"><ANTIMG src="images/deco.png" width-obs="25" alt="[Decorative image unavailable.]" /></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />