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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A COMPOSER, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poet's Biography
First Line: He heard a music that he could not snatch
Last Line: To hide a grave's enduring melodies.
First Line: He heard a music that he could not snatch
Last Line: To hide a grave's enduring melodies.
He heard a music that he could not snatch
From moods' and muses' fitful higher flight.
He wrote the lower strains his ears could catch;
But in despair, his name he would not write.
He died. His sweet unfathered songs survived,
True, human voices of the life that is.
Men praised: but only knew the name contrived
To hide a grave's enduring melodies.
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