Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEST OF ALL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: Of all good gifts that the lord lets
Last Line: Is not silence the best of all?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Silence


OF all good gifts that the Lord lets fall,
Is not silence the best of all?

The deep, sweet hush when the song is closed,
And every sound but a voiceless ghost;

And every sigh, as we listening leant,
A breathless quiet of vast content?

The laughs we laughed have a purer ring
With but their memory echoing;

And the joys we voiced, and the words we said,
Seem so dearer for being dead.

So of all good gifts that the Lord lets fall,
Is not silence the best of all?





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