Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE


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First Line: Wait but a little while
Last Line: Though yet ungrown.
Subject(s): Life; Love


WAIT but a little while --
The bird will bring
A heart in tune for melodies
Unto the spring,
Till he who's in the cedar there
Is moved to trill a song so rare,
And pipe her fair.

Wait but a little while --
The bud will break;
The inner rose will open and glow
For summer's sake;
Fond bees will lodge within her breast
Till she herself is plucked and prest
Where I would rest.

Wait but a little while --
The maid will grow
Gracious with lips and hands to thee,
With breast of snow.
To-day Love's mute, but time hath sown
A soul in her to match thine own,
Though yet ungrown.





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