Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHOPIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB


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First Line: Soul, that in music, as a flower in light
Last Line: Hence to their home, thy bosom, to return.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849)


Soul, that in music, as a flower in light,
Didst gem and bloom and vanish with a breath
That mist-like o'er the sullen tide of death
Keeps fragrant still the memory of thy flight;
Dost thou, immortal, on the topmost height
Of harmony, forget the world beneath
And all its chords tumultuous? Wandereth
No echo upwards through the sundering night?
Aye, notes of thine own making, now forlorn,
Like fledglings fluttered from the nest of love,
Tell of thy care, while with harmonious wing
They fan the depths of silence, listening
To hear anon thy mandate from above,
Hence to their home, thy bosom, to return.





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