Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, QUERY, by ELIZABETH STANTON LAY


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QUERY, by                    
First Line: Dear silent one
Last Line: Your steadfast ways?
Subject(s): Silence


Dear silent one --
What is your silence
But a cloud
Crossing the sun?

Can it be other --
Dear unanswering one --
Than a lost strip of darkness,
Lonely and high?
What of the silver edge?
What of the rays
Shot far
Into some distant sky?

What is this silence
Shadowing all my days --
Unless some lonely cloud
Fancies I shall forget
Your steadfast ways?





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