The Soul Of A Century/A letter
A LETTER
I tried to write to you that in your eye
My heart bloomed forth into a rose again,
That deep within me, where emotions lie
A nightingale sings love’s most tender strain.
That many tales are whispered in its den,
And many buds breathe in its flowered glen;
Into a garden my heart changed at your call;
But all I write, I love you above all.
And I tried to write that my heart wildly quakes
As the meadows stir under the fairies’ dancing feet,
When a southern zephyr through their tresses breaks
And wakes the flowers to love’s rustling beat;
And that the strength/ concealed within my heart
With songs of joy its secret would impart,
Like the scent that speaks of Spring when shadows fall;
But all I write, I love you above all.
And I tried to write that my thoughts are set ablaze
Like a golden light within a crystal fount,
Like a Morning Star shines through the morning haze,
Like the bush that burned on Sinai’s Sacred mount;
And I tried to write that all my life and might
Was set aflame like a sparkling diamond’s light
From whence your soul shines like a fiery ball,
But all I write, I love you above all.
And I tried to write that ne’er shall I forget,
Like a maple ne’er forgets the warmth of Springs,
That I must seek you and still my soul’s regret
Like Saul once sought the harp’s love-laden strings.
That you were once my most resplendant song,
That your forehead’s gleam will light my grave for long,
Though the wings of death will shield it as a pall,
But all I write, I love you above all.
This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content.
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) between 1929 and 1977 (inclusive) without a copyright notice. The longest-living author of this work died in 1987, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 36 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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