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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SILENCE, by EDWARD BLISS REED
First Line: Down the gray crags in the vale below
Last Line: We shall hear till our life be spent.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: Down the gray crags in the vale below
Last Line: We shall hear till our life be spent.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness
Down the gray crags in the vale below
Wound the river, a gossamer thread.
Our thoughts were as deep as the rocky steep,
But never a word we said.
On crimson clouds we could faintly trace
The path of the homing bird;
Our hopes soared high as the sun-flushed sky,
Yet we whispered never a word.
Then soul met soul; no speech we sought
For the noblest words seemed vain.
The earth and the sky must speak the thought
When heart calls to heart again.
No speech could declare the soul laid bare
In a vision of all life meant.
But the words that the silence whispered there
We shall hear till our life be spent.
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