Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: IV. Thought: Poetry: Books | | Thy Songs and Mine | | Julia C. R. Dorr (1825–1913) |
| | | SING thou my songs for me when I am dead! | |
| Soul of my soul, some day thou wilt awake | |
| To see the morning on the hilltops break, | |
| And the far summits flame with rosy red— | |
| But I shall wake not, though above my head | 5 |
| Armies should thunder; nor for Love’s sweet sake, | |
| Though he the tenderest pilgrimage should make | |
| Where I am lying in my grassy bed. | |
| I shall be silent, with my song half sung; | |
| I shall be dumb, with half the story told; | 10 |
| I shall be mute, leaving the half unsaid. | |
| Take thou the harp ere it be yet unstrung— | |
| Wake thou the lyre ere yet its chords be cold— | |
| Sing thou my songs, and thine, when I am dead! | | | | |
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