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THE COMPANION by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE

First Line: WINTER IS HERE, AND THE MUSIC GONE
Last Line: WITH DARK AND DEW.
Subject(s): SINGING & SINGERS; WINTER; SONGS;

WINTER is here,
And the music gone,
But the bird in my breast
Goes singing on.

Often he sings
In a sweet half-hour
What is told in a year
By star and flower.

Wrinkled and grey
By the touch of time,
I am young if I lend
My heart to rhyme.

Stay, if you can,
Little bird of blue,
Till I get me to bed
With dark and dew.



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