Again the dead, the dead again demanding
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Again the dead, the dead again demanding
To be, O now to be remembered strongly —
The dead, reminding mindsight of their darkness —
The dead who overhear us, listening longly.
Musician, now reverberant in our playing;
Poet, the presence haunting urgent words;
Dead youth, in love with life, now June-awakened
To hear through dream the dawn-delighted birds;
How can you be believed in, how made certain,
How sought beyond the silences of learning?
And how, revisitants by life envisioned,
Can what we are empower your quiet returning?
Again the dead, the dead again demanding
To be, O now to be remembered strongly —
The dead, reminding mindsight of their darkness —
The dead who overhear us, listening longly.
Musician, now reverberant in our playing;
Poet, the presence haunting urgent words;
Dead youth, in love with life, now June-awakened
To hear through dream the dawn-delighted birds;
How can you be believed in, how made certain,
How sought beyond the silences of learning?
And how, revisitants by life envisioned,
Can what we are empower your quiet returning?
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