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SONG by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING

First Line: O SHADOWS PAST THE CANDLE - GLEAM, SO BRIEF TO PAUSE
Last Line: REMEMBERING?
Subject(s): SINGING & SINGERS; SONGS;
O shadows past the candle-gleam, so brief to pause in flight,
Are shadows that can come no more
Still moving unseen on the door
Of Yesternight?

O roses on the crumbling wall, so soon to droop and die,
Are any roses that are dead
Still fragrant where their petals bled
In Junes gone by?

O heart of mine, there is a face nor grief nor prayer can bring . . .
Think you in some far Shadow-land
One keeps my roses in his hand,
Remembering?



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