Songs Eternity
What is song's eternity?
Come and see.
Can it noise and bustle be?
Come and see.
Praises sung or praises
Can it be?
Wait awhile and these are dead - Sigh, sigh;
Be they high or lowly
They die.
What is song's eternity?
Come and see.
Melodies of earth and sky,
Here they be.
Song once sung to Adam's
Can it be?
Ballads of six thousand
Thrive, thrive;
Songs awaken with the
Alive.
Mighty songs that miss decay,
What are they?
Crowds and cities pass
Like a day.
Books are out and books are read;
What are they?
Years will lay them with the dead - Sigh, sigh;
Trifles unto nothing wed,
They die.
Dreamers, mark the honey bee;
Mark the
Where the blue cap "tootle tee"Sings a
Sung to Adam and to Eve - Here they be.
When floods covered every bough,
Noah's
Heard that ballad singing now;
Hark, hark,"Tootle tootle tootle tee" - Can it
Pride and fame must shadows be?
Come and see - Every season owns her own;
Bird and
Sing creation's music on;
Nature's
Is in every mood and
Eternity.
John Clare
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