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First Line: Be no word spoken. Hide away
Last Line: Mark them, love them, say no word.
Subject(s): Silence


BE no word spoken. Hide away
Thought and feeling day by day.
Let them rise and pour their light
And set like planets in the night,
Unheralded, unpraised, unheard.
Watch them, love them, say no word.

Heart knows not to speak with heart.
Song and speech can ne'er impart
Faith by which we live and die;
A thought once spoken is a lie.
Unbroken, undefiled, unstirred
Thy fountain: drink, and say no word.

Live within thyself, and be
In a world of faerie,
Of magic thoughts that hide away
From the noise and glare of day,
Delicate airs on earth unheard,
Mark them, love them, say no word.





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