lirik lagu richard mitchley - may 1917 by john jay thompson
the earth is damp: in everything
i taste the bitter breath of pallid spring
hark! in the air a fanning sound
like distant beehives.—ah, the woods awake;
and finding they are naked, cast around
a mist, like that which trembles on the lake
the forest murmurs, shudders, sings
on pipes and strings
with harp and flute;
and then turns coy
as if ashamed to show its joy
and in a flush of happiness grows mute
alas, the spring! ah, liquid light
your vistas of transparent green
fall on my spirit like a blight
the tapestries you hang on high
are like a pageant to a sick man’s eye
or sights in fevеr seen
behind your bowers and your blooms
volcanic desolation looms;
your lifе doth death express;
each leaf proclaims a blackened waste
each tree, some paradise defaced
each bud, a wilderness
and all your lisping notes are drowned
by one deep murmur underground
that tells us joy is fled
love, innocence, the heart’s desire
the flashing of apollo’s lyre,—
beauty herself is dead
in all the valleys of the earth,—
save for the dead,—no wreath is hung
long, long ago the sounds of mirth
died on man’s tongue
love is an interrupted song
and life a broken lute;
time’s pendulum has stopped: a throng
of huddling moments press along
untimed, in mad pursuit
and into days and months are whirled
as in a dream of pain
chaos has wrecked the outer world
chaos invades the brain
the sounds, the sights, the scents of spring
awake that sullen suffering
which opium soothes in vain,—
like the sad dawn of dread relief
that tells the greatness of his grief
to him that is insane
would i had perished with the past!
would i had shared the fate
of those who heard the trumpet~call
and rode upon the blast,—
who stopped not to debate
nor strove to save
but giving life, gave all
casting their manhood as a man might cast
a rose upon a grave
would that like them beneath the sod i lay
beneath the glistening grass
beneath the flood of things that come, and pass
beckon, and shine and fade away
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