Show TWO MOODS between the tha budding and the falling lea skies wah wi h colors and sweet cries of mating birds in uplands and la in glades the world fa h rijn then on a budde a all the music buea the color fades I 1 how fugitive and briet brief Is mortal life between the budding and the falling lead oh short breathed music dying on an the th tongue longn ere era half the mystic canticle be ba oh harp of life TO so speedily spee llly unstone uns who if his bis to choose would know inow again the bitter sweetness of the lost refrain its rapture and its pain though I 1 bo shut in darkness and become I 1 sentient insentient dust blown idly here and there ibold I 1 hold oblivion a scant price to pay for having once had held against my up lip lifes brimming brim cup cap of hydromel and rue for having haring once known womans comans hoy holy love and a childs kiss and for a little depaco s ce ileen been buon boon companion to the day and night fed on the odors of the summer dawn and folded in the beauty of the tha stars dear lord though I 1 he be changed to senseless clay and serve tho potter as le he turns his wheel I 1 thank thee tor for the tha gracious gift et of thomas bailey aldrich in harpers hamers |