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Poems

Chapter 77: TEACH MY SONG
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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.

TEACH MY SONG

Kind and Dear you are, and Brave and Strong.
Life has taught you worth of smile and tear;
Still your spirit’s tenor flows along
Kind and Dear.
Turn to me, on whom for many a year
Fate has wrought its work of bitter wrong;
(Scarce my veilèd vision sees you clear!)
On your brow is Peace, to you belong
Life’s best gifts, oh lend me Faith and Cheer!
Show me Truth and Beauty, teach my song,
Kind and Dear!