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THE FIRST SONG by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: A POET WRIT A SONG OF MAY
Last Line: DEEP HIDDEN IN HIS HEART.
Subject(s): HEARTS; LIFE; MAY (MONTH); POETRY & POETS; SINGING & SINGERS; SONGS;

A POET writ a song of May
That checked his breath awhile;
He kept it for a summer day,
Then spake with half a smile:

"Oh, little song of purity,
Of mystic to-and-fro,
You are so much a part of me
I dare not let you go."

And so he made a sister-song
With more of cunning art;
But held the first his whole life long
Deep hidden in his heart.



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