ECHO SONG
by: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(1836-1906)
- I
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- HO can say where Echo dwells?
- In some mountain-cave, methinks,
- Where the white owl sits and blinks;
- Or in deep sequestered dells,
- Where foxglove hangs its bells,
- Echo dwells.
Echo!
Echo!
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- II
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- Phantom of the crystal Air,
- Daughter of sweet Mystery!
- Here is one has need of thee;
- Lead him to thy secret lair,
- Myrtle brings he for thy hair--
- Hear his prayer,
Echo!
Echo!
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- III
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- Echo lift thy drowsy head,
- And repeat each charmëd word
- Thou must needs have overheard
- Yestere'en ere, rosy-red,
- Daphne
down the valley fled--
- Words unsaid,
Echo!
Echo!
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- IV
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- Breathe the vows she since denies!
- She hath broken every vow;
- What she would she would not now--
- Thou didst hear her perjuries.
- Whisper, whilst I shut my eyes,
- Those sweet lies,
Echo!
Echo!
"Echo Song" is reprinted
from THE SISTERS' TRAGEDY WITH OTHER POEMS,LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1891. |
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