Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ALAN SEEGER, by JOHN LANGDON JONES


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ALAN SEEGER, by                    
First Line: The words are done. The covers of the song
Last Line: Your music still is heard through many lands.
Subject(s): Praise


The words are done. The covers of the song
Are closed. The lingering murmur from the keys,
Diminuendo, slow and sweetly long,
Dies out; the singer, who his triumph sees,
Departs mid storms of thundering applause,
He comes not back: he is forever gone;
And yet the crowd goes humming as it draws
Away toward streets where late the sunlight shone.
So you have passed too far for you to hear
The praises that electrify the air;
And yet not dead because that strangely dear
Appointment holds you mercilessly there.
And though that thief has bound you fast with bands,
Your music still is heard through many lands.





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