Page:Poems, Volume 2, Coates, 1916.djvu/24

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.
8
THE SINGER

And, grieving, we would not forget
The vision, hallowed to us yet,—
The hope that seemed so vain.


And then we envy not the throng
That careless passes by,
With no remembrance of the song,—
Though we must listen still, and long
To hear it till we die!