Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SELFSAME SONG, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: A bird sings the selfsame song
Last Line: That song with me.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


A BIRD sings the selfsame song,
With never a fault in its flow,
That we listened to here those long
Long years ago.

A pleasing marvel is how
A strain of such rapturous rote
Should have gone on thus till now
Unchanged in a note!

-- But it's not the selfsame bird. --
No: perished to dust is he. . . .
As also are those who heard
That song with me.





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