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First Line: Only to the night wind will I tell my
Last Line: This core of sorrow that is mine alone?
Subject(s): Lament


Only to the night wind will I tell my sadness
As it goes moaning, moaning
Along the low-hung eaves;
None, then, will know if it is my sighing
Or the slow rustle of the thick ivy leaves.

Only in bright silence will I make my lamentation,
In a stillness that is shining, shining
With joys that delay;
None, then, will know that it is my heart crying
That makes such a silence in the glowing day.

Only with laughter will I do my mourning,
In a voice that is singing, singing
In no requiem tone;
How should I cheapen with tears and with keening
This core of sorrow that is mine alone?





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