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The Song That Lasts

Richard Le Gallienne

Songs I sang of lordly matters,
Life and death, and stars and sea;
Nothing of them now remains
But the song I sang for thee.

Vain the learned elaborate metres,
Vain the deeply pondered line;
All the rest are dust and ashes
But that little song of thine.

(C) Richard Le Gallienne
03/10/2020


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