Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FAITH, by JAMES J. DALY


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First Line: These caressed him
Last Line: "close ears and ourselves be beauty?"
Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Belief; Creed


These caressed him:
Her hand out of the shadow
When the black god whispered,
"Beauty's to be taken."
And he fought back:
"Beauty is freest when treasured
Only as a song is treasured;
Beauty must give itself to be possessed --
Beauty taken is beauty lost."

Her hand then, and now
Memory of her throat of music
Murmuring him to tranquil fields
Where bleak roots blossom . . .

"And where," he wondered sadly,
"Together some day we shall close ears
To the black gods?
Close ears and ourselves be Beauty?"





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