Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 22. I KNO2 YOUR VOICE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 22. I KNO2 YOUR VOICE, by                    
First Line: I know your voice. I hear it in the wind
Last Line: And purest love was its affinity.
Subject(s): Voices


I know your voice. I hear it in the wind;
I hear it in the silence of the night.
Its echoes sweetly vibrate on my mind,
Though never do I comprehend it quite.
I list unto its soft and gentle tones
In meadow brooks and in each gurgling rill,
It cries to me from out the very stones,
And everywhere its accents haunt me still.

It conjures up the scenes of childhood days,
When pure of heart I wandered in the wood
And listened to the linnet trill its lays
Of happiness and peace.—Then life seemed good,
And God was close at hand, and I could hear
That still, small voice which prompted me to be
All that my inner soul had long held dear,
And purest love was its affinity.





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