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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN MEMORIAM, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE
First Line: Dust-laden, languid flowers droop and fade
Last Line: Brings back the sunlight of a life that shone.
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: Dust-laden, languid flowers droop and fade
Last Line: Brings back the sunlight of a life that shone.
Subject(s): Memory
DUST-LADEN, languid flowers droop and fade;
The parched landscape trembles in the heat;
But hark! a fluting thrush far in the shade
Sends rest and coolness from his dark retreat.
A tuneful life sings softly through its days,
And to a restless world its peace imparts;
Soothes fevered brows to sleep, and thirst allays,
And brings sweet sympathy to broken hearts.
There is a sadness in the chilly air;
Dark branches stand against a leaden sky;
A lonely bird takes flight for climes more fair;
And in the wood a leaf falls silently.
Beside the bed an anxious watcher stands;
A yellow sunbeam steals in from the west;
A weary soul flies forth for brighter lands;
A ripened life falls gently to its rest.
Their pride and glory gone, earth's leafy dead,
Snow-buried, sleep 'neath winter fields of white,
Save where a withered aster lifts its head
To tell of warmer suns and days more bright.
A sense of loneliness, a sweet regret,
And then forgetfulness deep drifting on;
But still some heart that never can forget
Brings back the sunlight of a life that shone.
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