Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT


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First Line: If I had known you-oh, I had known you!
Last Line: Prophet and priest, your poet for all time.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


IF I had known you—oh, if I had known you!
In other days when youth and love were strong,
I would have raised a temple to enthrone you
On some fair pinnacle of cloudless song.

If you had touched me then with your dear laughter,
As now its echo smites me in my grief,
I would have given my soul to you, and after
Lived in my love, grown old in my belief.

If you had loved me,—oh, you would have loved me!
Earth would have worshipped us, its seers sublime,
My song had been a psalm, and Saints had proved me
Prophet and priest, your poet for all time.





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