Arts & Sciences
The Song that Lasts
From A Jongleur Strayed (1922)
Arts & Sciences
Songs I sang of lordly matters,
Life and death, and stars and sea;
Nothing of them now remains
But the song I sang for thee.
Vain the learned elaborate metres,
Vain the deeply pondered line;
All the rest are dust and ashes
But that little song of thine.
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MLA
Gallienne, Richard Le. “The Song that Lasts.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/legallienne/235/.
Chicago
Gallienne, Richard Le. “The Song that Lasts.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/legallienne/235/.
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