When silence as my aptest singing sits

      When silence as my aptest singing sits
      Perched atop old boughs of weighty song
      And all my voluble voice is simply fit
      For inner comment at what comes along
5     Then I know our hours are most golden
      And have a tone of knowing something more
      Than rapid words that flit and flit may hold
      With all their chorus of singing by the score.
      Then I know a single note unsung
10    And held in inner vibrato only
      Keeps the tune alone when all's unstrung
      And song without beginning lingers only.
      Then I look into your two eyes, dear one,
      And hear what symphony we have begun.

 

From the collection "Supposing Roses"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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