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Symonds, John Addington - The Singer
Identifier
024312
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
New and Old: A Volume of Verse
The Singer
He fills the world with his singing
High notes of the heavenly morn
For ever and ever ringing
As age after age is born
And then he is still and we know not
Whither his thoughts have fled;
Only the clear notes flow not,
And we say, the singer is dead.
But the nightingales that he cherished
They carol and cannot die
Though the man whom we loved hath perished,
His melody throbs for aye