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EARLY CANDLE-LIGHT by RHYS CARPENTER

First Line: THE LOW SWEET MELODY OF ANCIENT SONG
Last Line: KISSES ASLEEP THE HEAVY EYES OF GRIEF.
Subject(s): COMFORT; GRIEF; SINGING & SINGERS; SLEEP; SORROW; SADNESS; SONGS;
THE low sweet melody of ancient song
Kisses asleep the heavy eyes of grief.
When autumn falls and withers every leaf,
When daylight shrinks and stormy nights grow long,
When winter-wind and winter-cold are strong,
And sorrow holds the weary heart in fief,
The low sweet melody of ancient song
Kisses asleep the heavy eyes of grief.

When golden love lies bound with iron thong,
And noble tales but mock our dull belief,
When mirth has garnered every radiant sheaf
And all the sickly world is harsh and wrong,
The low sweet melody of ancient song
Kisses asleep the heavy eyes of grief.



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