Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AFTER MUSIC, by JANET RAMSAY


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AFTER MUSIC, by                    
First Line: Let life and its bewildering music stop
Last Line: Or unremembering songs, airs that are weightless.
Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Silence; Dead, The


Let life and its bewildering music stop
At brassy noon, since morning's jocund strings
Which tricked the toe and heel of youth now drop
The dance, and horn to horn in challenge rings --
Even though the later shadowy hours may breathe
Into the tranquil hollow of a flute,
And evening gather up the notes and wreathe
A lonely neutral chord which night will mute.

Death is a final consonance and pause
Maybe, but if the music must go on,
Let bow and breath forget the former cause
Of every sound, for after love has gone
There is a need of silence vast and gateless,
Or unremembering songs, airs that are weightless.





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