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Poems

Chapter 38: SING AGAIN
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About This Book

A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

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SING AGAIN

You sang me a song,
’Twas the close of the year,
Sing again!
I do not remember the name
Or the words,
’Tis the same
You listen to hear
When the window is open in spring
And the air’s full of birds;
One calls from the branch some rare thing
And one sings on the wing
The refrain.
You sang me a song,
My heart thrilled to hear.
The refrain
Has run like a fillet of gold
Through the woof
Of the cold,
Dark days of this year.
To-night there’s a year at its start,
The birds are aloof:
But your eyes hold the sun for my part
And the Spring’s in your heart,
Sing again!