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THE SONG THAT LASTS by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE

First Line: SONGS I SANG OF LORDLY MATTERS
Last Line: BUT THAT LITTLE SONG OF THINE.
Subject(s): LOVE; POETRY & POETS;

SONGS I sang of lordly matters,
Life and death, and stars and sea;
Nothing of them now remains
But the song I sang for thee.

Vain the learned elaborate metres,
Vain the deeply pondered line;
All the rest are dust and ashes
But that little song of thine.



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