Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ONE SPAKE TO HELEN, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL


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ONE SPAKE TO HELEN, by                    
First Line: Your beauty is a lyric thing
Last Line: Your beauty—or my song?
Subject(s): Beauty


Your beauty is a lyric thing:
One little voice too small
Upon the noisy way of life
To sing, and tell it all.

Yet some shall pause, and some shall hear,
And some shall mark me well;
And some shall say, "Give ear, good friends,
To what he hath to tell." ...

In after days if memory grope
Through hazy years and long,
Which shall the world remember,
Your beauty—or my song?





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