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PRAISE by JAMES SULLIVAN STARKEY

First Line: DEAR, THEY ARE PRAISING YOUR BEAUTY
Last Line: SUNG IN A SIGH.
Subject(s): BEAUTY;

Dear, they are praising your beauty,
The grass and the sky:
The sky in a silence of wonder,
The grass in a sigh.

I too would sing for your praising,
Dearest, had I
Speech as the whispering grass,
Or the silent sky.

These have an art for the praising
Beauty so high.
Sweet, you are praised in a silence,
Sung in a sigh.





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