Alone I sat; the summer day
Alone I sat; the summer day
Had died in smiling light away;
I saw it die, I watched it fade
From misty hill and breezeless glade;
And thoughts in my soul were gushing,
And my heart bowed beneath their power;
And tears within my eyes were rushing
Because I could not speak the feeling,
The solemn joy around me stealing
In that divine, untroubled hour.
I asked myself, “O why has heaven
Denied the precious gift to me,
The glorious gift to many given
To speak their thoughts in poetry?
“Dreams have encircled me,” I said,
“From careless childhood's sunny time;
Visions by ardent fancy fed
Since life was in its morning prime.”
But now, when I had hoped to sing,
My fingers strike a tuneless string;
And still the burden of the strain
Is “Strive no more; 'tis all in vain.”
Manuscript D6 is a single leaf containing Nos. 27, 36, 37, and 38 on one side, and cancelled versions of Nos. 40, 62, and 16 respectively on the reverse.
Had died in smiling light away;
I saw it die, I watched it fade
From misty hill and breezeless glade;
And thoughts in my soul were gushing,
And my heart bowed beneath their power;
And tears within my eyes were rushing
Because I could not speak the feeling,
The solemn joy around me stealing
In that divine, untroubled hour.
I asked myself, “O why has heaven
Denied the precious gift to me,
The glorious gift to many given
To speak their thoughts in poetry?
“Dreams have encircled me,” I said,
“From careless childhood's sunny time;
Visions by ardent fancy fed
Since life was in its morning prime.”
But now, when I had hoped to sing,
My fingers strike a tuneless string;
And still the burden of the strain
Is “Strive no more; 'tis all in vain.”
Manuscript D6 is a single leaf containing Nos. 27, 36, 37, and 38 on one side, and cancelled versions of Nos. 40, 62, and 16 respectively on the reverse.
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