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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A GROWN UP SONG, by DOROTHEA LAWRANCE MANN
First Line: I have known strange and precious things
Last Line: The spell the years themselves have told.
Subject(s): Wellesley College
First Line: I have known strange and precious things
Last Line: The spell the years themselves have told.
Subject(s): Wellesley College
I HAVE known strange and precious things,
Beheld the gracious loveliness
Which lingers where once Beauty brings
The miracle of his caress.
Dark skies his wand has touched with gold,
A murmuring wave-voice, low and long,
And echoes down the silence rolled,
And winds which waken into song.
Gray houses, mating songs of birds,
White magic hidden in old books,
Flowers and wisdom-shaking words,
And faces from which Beauty looks.
All these I loved. You love them too.
While Beauty lives, their charm shall hold,
Outmocking Time with his own due --
The spell the years themselves have told.
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