Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWO BARDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON


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TWO BARDS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bard who wrote in staves
Last Line: The bitter north.
Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Singing & Singers; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean; Songs


A BARD who wrote in staves
Once made a heathen hymn.
It had this stern refrain,
That moved as though in pain:
"The under-glimpse of graves
Makes the sea grim."

A southland singer sung
With happy heart and free.
The living, not the dead,
He dealt with, and he said:
"The world is glad and young,
And good to me."

And ever since, mankind
Is shuttled back and forth
Between these singers twain
Of glad and sad refrain: --
The southland warm and kind,
The bitter north.





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