Gift To Sing

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2><SPAN name="THE_GIFT_TO_SING" id="THE_GIFT_TO_SING"></SPAN>THE GIFT TO SING</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Sometimes the mist overhangs my path,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And blackening clouds about me cling;<br/></span> <span class="i0">But, oh, I have a magic way<br/></span> <span class="i0">To turn the gloom to cheerful day&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">I softly sing.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And if the way grows darker still,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Shadowed by Sorrow's somber wing,<br/></span> <span class="i0">With glad defiance in my throat,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I pierce the darkness with a note,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And sing, and sing.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I brood not over the broken past,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Nor dread whatever time may bring;<br/></span> <span class="i0">No nights are dark, no days are long,<br/></span> <span class="i0">While in my heart there swells a song,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And I can sing.<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />