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Whither and whence and why hast fled	A
Thou art dumb my muse thou art dumb thou art dead	A
As a waterless stream as a leafless tree	B
What have I done to banish thee	B
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But a moon ago the whole day long	C
My ears were full of the sound of song	C
And still through my darkly silent dreams	D
Plashed the fitful music of far off streams	D
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When the night turned pale and the stars grew dim	E
The morning chanted a dewy hymn	E
The fragrant languor of cradled noon	F
Was lulled by the hum of a self sung tune	F
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Joy came on the wings of a jocund lay	G
And sorrow in harmony passed away	G
And the sunny hours of tideless time	H
Were buoyed on the surges of rolling rhyme	H
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The moon went up in a cloudless sky	I
Silently but melodiously	G
And the glitter of stars and the patter of rain	J
Were notes and chords of an endless strain	J
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And vision and feeling and sound and scent	K
Were the strings of a sensitive instrument	L
That silently patiently watched and waited	M
And unto my soul reverberated	N
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In the orchard reddens the rounded fruit	O
'Mid the yellowing leaves but my voice is mute	O
The thinned copse sighs like a heart forsaken	P
But not one chord of my soul is shaken	P
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Through the gloaming broadens the harvest moon	F
The fagged hind whistles his homeward tune	F
The last load creaks up the hamlet hill	G
'Tis only my voice my voice that is still	G
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The Muse answers	Q
Poet look in your poet's heart	R
It will tell you what keepeth us twain apart	R
I have not left you I still am near	S
But a music not mine enchants your ear	T
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Another hath entered and nestles deep	U
In the lap of your love like a babe asleep	U
You watch her breathing from morn till night	V
She is all your hearing and all your sight	V
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Yet fear not poet to do me wrong	C
She is sweeter far than the sweetest song	C
One looks and listens the way she went	K
As towards lark that is lost in the firmament	K
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So gladly to her I you resign	W
Her caress is tenderer much than mine	W
I hover round you and hear her kiss	X
With wonder at its melodiousness	X
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When you gaze on the moon you see but her	Y
You hear her feet when the branches stir	Y
And sunrise and sunset and starlight only	G
Make their beauty without her feel more lonely	G
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So how should you poet hope to sing	Z
The lute of Love hath a single string	Z
Its note is sweet as the coo of the dove	A2
But 'tis only one note and the note is Love	A2
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But when once you have paired and built your nest	K
And can brood therein with a settled breast	K
You will sing once more and your voice will stir	Y
All hearts with the sweetness gained from her	Y

Alfred Austin

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