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GONE, BUT HERE by JOHN FREEMAN

First Line: SHE WAS HERE, AND SHE IS GONE
Last Line: OF LIFE BE DONE?
Subject(s): FAREWELL; LOVE - LOSS OF; MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS; MUSIC & MUSICIANS; PARTING; MALE-FEMALE RELATIONS;
SHE was here, and she is gone,
Yet there is singing;
Round this heart of crumbling stone
Music still is clinging
As birds round cliffs where tempests groan
All day are winging.
How can music still go on—on—
And she gone?

She is here no more but can
Her song be gone?
Stars that waned when dawn began
Still burn purely on,
Silence sings when every song of man
Is done.
How shall her song be mute although her span
Of life be done?



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