Song ("If love should bring...")

SONG

If love should bring

Grief tomorrow,

I would not sing

One song for my'sorrow.

Never a note

For all my aching;

I would hush my throat

If my heart were breaking.

But the touch of flesh,

Lasting a minute-

That is a mesh

With music in it.

Lindley Williams Hubbell

SILENCE

Structure

15 lines · 4 stanzas