| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (18851977). Modern British Poetry. 1920. |
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| Seumas O'Sullivan. 1879 |
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| 107. Praise |
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| DEAR, they are praising your beauty, | |
| The grass and the sky: | |
| The sky in a silence of wonder, | |
| The grass in a sigh. | |
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| I too would sing for your praising, | 5 |
| Dearest, had I | |
| Speech as the whispering grass, | |
| Or the silent sky. | |
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| These have an art for the praising | |
| Beauty so high. | 10 |
| Sweet, you are praised in a silence, | |
| Sung in a sigh. | |
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