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Muse and Mint

Chapter 94: SONG ALONG

By Walter Seymour Percy

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About This Book

A varied collection of short lyrical poems that observes nature and rural life, using seasonal imagery—sap, snow, rivers, cherries—and simple domestic scenes to reflect on change, beauty, and small joys. Sections shift between fireside recollections, sentimental and philosophical meditations, homiletic and religious pieces, and light humor, blending devotional songlike verses with moral aphorisms and affectionate memory. The voice moves between wistful and buoyant moods, finding consolation and ethical insight in commonplace experiences, while concise stanzas and vivid images emphasize mood and moral reflection rather than a continuous narrative.

SONG ALONG

I sang an old song as I worked one day—

What cared I who smiled,

What cared I who frowned?

So long as my song made the task seem play,

What cared I how many were pleasure-bound?

I heeded them not unless they as well

Were singing a song that work-glad fell,

And then we together went singing along.

I courted my love when dreamers were we—

What cared I who laughed

What cared I who sighed?

So long as my love was the world to me,

What cared I for others the whole world wide?

I heeded them not unless they as well

Were dreaming upon the same love’s spell,

And then we together went dreaming along.

So I worked with a love-song for my cheer—

What cared I who hated

Both labor and joy?

So long as my loved ones to me were dear,

What cared I how others made loving alloy?

I heeded them not unless they as well

Were part of the song which cherubs swell,

And then we together went singing along.