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Wake Me a Song

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Out of the silences wake me a song,      Beautiful, sad, and soft, and low;     Let the loveliest music sound along,      And wing each note with a wail of woe:         Dim and drear         As hope's last tear;     Out of the silences wake me a hymn,     Whose sounds are like shadows soft and dim.     Out of the stillness in your heart --      A thousand songs are sleeping there --     Wake me a song, thou child of art!      The song of a hope in a last despair:         Dark and low,         A chant of woe;     Out of the stillness, tone by tone,     Cold as a snowflake, low as a moan.     Out of the darkness flash me a song,      Brightly dark and darkly bright;     Let it sweep as a lone star sweeps along      The mystical shadows of the night:         Sing it sweet;     Where nothing is drear, or dark, or dim,     And earth-song soars into heavenly hymn.

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