Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG, by ARTHUR PETERSON


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First Line: I walk by night along the lanes
Last Line: In streams of unknown music run.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


I walk by night along the lanes;
The planets rise and sink to rest;
O like some star which never wanes
Thy face shines down upon my breast!
Though sea and land between us lie,
The spirit knows nor bar nor bound:
Can I not, in the midnight sky,
Behold the distant worlds swing round?
So, from this roadway, where my feet
In dusky spaces tread the earth,
I see thee, an immortal sweet,
Above a son of mortal birth.

Thy face it is that lights my dreams;
Thy hand it is that leads me on;
Athwart my vision ever gleams
A time when I thy smile have won.
Then with the glory round my brow,
That bards of Greece and Rome have worn,
Before my coming thou shalt bow
Whose heart hath slain men with its scorn.
Like Memnon, from the Egyptian night
Awakened by the glimmering sun,
So shall thy blood, from grave to bright,
In streams of unknown music run.





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