Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THREE VOICES, by THOMAS WALSH


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THREE VOICES, by                    
First Line: Upon the rack of love despised I lay
Last Line: God's seals still molten on the scrolls of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time


Soprano:
UPON the rack of love despised I lay
And one at midnight came to hush my groan
With—"Patience, brother, for at break of day
Thou shalt forget"—that word wrenched bone from bone.

Contralto:
I live,—O God, my heart is beating still!—
Yea, this that walks and eats and sleeps, is I!
What of the light that fled these ashes chill—
My soul of dreams—? I live to see it die.

Basso:
To-night I weary of my book of doubt,
Its rhymes and sciences of sneer and slime;
I throw my casement wide where clear shine out
God's seals still molten on the scrolls of Time.





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