<h2><SPAN name="chap07"></SPAN>SONG</h2>
<p class="poem">
Out of one heart the birds and I together,<br/>
Earth hushed in twilight,<br/>
Low through the live-oaks hung heavy with silver,<br/>
Gemmed with the sky-light,<br/>
Under the great wet star<br/>
Shaking with light, we jar<br/>
Lute-voiced the silence with intervaled music.<br/>
<br/>
While under the margined world the slow sun lingers,<br/>
Flaming earth’s portal,<br/>
Over the lilac dusk spreads his great fingers—<br/>
Earth is immortal!<br/>
While the frail beauty dies.<br/>
Dream in the dreamer’s eyes,<br/>
All the good gladness turns praise for the singers.<br/>
<br/>
Hark, ’tis the breath of life! Hush! and I need it;<br/>
Northern, gigantic,—<br/>
Questing the silences, herding the sudden foam<br/>
Down the Atlantic;<br/>
Leaves from the autumn’s store<br/>
Shrill at my desert door,<br/>
They and I out of one heart that is grieving.<br/></p>
<p class="left">
GEORGE CABOT LODGE</p>
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