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THE LOVE-SONG, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am more tall today than ever before
Last Line: Rudderless,—lost,—in the song that is not forgotten.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


I AM more tall today than ever before;
So great is my pride, as I sing aloud your song,
That the city street seems like the deck of a ship
Breasting far waves of cloud. The world moves thus
Out on its seas of air to the tune of your song,
Rising and falling under the straight noon sun.

You would never know your song, I am shouting it so,
But shouting is fine, when the waves of the sea run high!
Loud notes flung to the wind and carried away
Down through the shining water and shining air!
Shouting is fine, when a ship moves under your feet,
And all of your being is full of remembered song!

I am so tall today! I can almost forget
Your notes were made for another, and not for me;
And sung in the quiet dark with a voice that trembled...
Now from afar, and under the deep noon sky,
I do not care to know if she understood...

Let there be shouting—shouting into the sun!
For to all the world the street is only the street
Where one may pass who sings that her heart is full;
And none must know that the street is plunging before me,
Downward and down to the constant rhythm of singing,—
Sucked to the whirlpool dark in the surging of music,—
Rudderless,—lost,—in the song that is not forgotten.





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