Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
I do believe you still love me,From the moment we've met...
There is something above me,
I did a thing of which I regret...
I've betrayed myself firstly,
I did such horrible mistake...
I can still see you: an Echo,to be touched with Feeler-Words, on the Parting-Ridge
Your face softly shies away,when all at once there islamp-like brightnessin me, at the Point,where most painfully one says Never
The night is so still, the streets are at rest,
This is the house that my love graced,
This is the town she’s long since left,
But the house is here in the selfsame place
Let such pure hate still underprop Our love, that we may be Each other's conscience,
And have our sympathy Mainly from thence
We'll one another treat like gods,
And all the faith we have In virtue and in truth, bestow On either, and...
I hear the stars still singing To the beautiful, silent night, As they speed with noiseless winging Their ever westward flight
I hear the waves still falling On the stretch of lonely shore, But the sound of a sweet voice calling I shall hear,...
Whatever story of their cruelty,
Or nail, or thorn, or spear have writ in Thee, Are in another sense Still legible ; Sweet is the difference : Once I did spell Every red letter A wound of Thine ; Now, what is better, Balsam for mine
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