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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AIR FOR VIOLA DA GAMBA, by JOSEPH WALSH
First Line: Do you remember now how rain
Last Line: (how does that old sonata go?)
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs
First Line: Do you remember now how rain
Last Line: (how does that old sonata go?)
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs
Do you remember now how rain
Ran thickly down each window pane,
And clouds of lilac were as blurred
As old sonatas dimly heard?
We sat beside a hemlock blaze
And felt the glow of coming days.
Ah, there were only just we two,
And laughter leaping up the flue.
And do you know how still the rain
Is, now, upon each leaded pane,
And breath of lilacs, wet and thin,
Comes timidly and wanders in?
You took my heart that rainy day
And then you went -- went far away.
You went between the lilac row, --
(How does that old sonata go?)
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