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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SECRET DEWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor little songs, children of sorrow, go
Last Line: The secret dews fall under the evening-star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Grief; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: Poor little songs, children of sorrow, go
Last Line: The secret dews fall under the evening-star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Grief; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness
Poor little songs, children of sorrow, go.
A wind may take you up, and blow you far.
My heart will go with you, too, wherever you go.
As the little leaves in the wood, they pass:
The wind has lifted them, and the wind is gone.
Have I too not heard the wind come, and pass?
The secret dews fall under the Evening-Star,
And there is peace I know in the west: yet, if there be no dawn,
The secret dews fall under the Evening-Star.
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