Prelude To "Preludes"
Though black the night, I know upon the sky, A little paler now, if clouds were none, The stars would be. Husht now the thickets lie, And now the birds are moving one by one,, A note, and now from bush to bush it goes, A prelude, now victorious light along The west will come till every bramble glows With wash of sunlit dew shaken in song. Shaken in song; O heart, be ready now, Cold in your night, be ready now to sing. Dawn as it wakes the sleeping bird on bough Shall summon you to instant reckoning,, She is your dawn, O heart,, sing, till the night Of death shall come, the gospel of her light.
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