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SONGS TO A.H.R.: 5. IN A DARK HOUR by CALE YOUNG RICE

First Line: YOU ARE NOT WITH ME -- ONLY THE MOON
Last Line: AND LEFT ONE WITH ALL LIFE UNCLEAR.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;

You are not with me -- only the moon,
The sea and the gulls' cry, out of tune;
The myriad cry of the gulls still strewn
On the sands where the tide will enter soon.

You are not with me, only the breath
Of the wind -- and then the wind's death;
A shrouding silence then that saith,
'Even as wind love vanisheth.'

You are not with me -- only fear,
As old as earth's first frenzied bier,
That severed two whose hearts were near --
And left one with all life unclear.



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