| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 133. The Green Singer |
| | | By Shaw Neilson |
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| ALL singers have shadows | |
| That follow like fears, | |
| But I know a singer | |
| Who never saw tears; | |
| A gay love—a green love— | 5 |
| Delightsome—divine: | |
| The Spring is that singer— | |
| An old love of mine! | |
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| All players have shadows, | |
| And into the play | 10 |
| Old sorrows will saunter— | |
| Old sorrows will stay. | |
| But here is a player | |
| Whose speech is divine: | |
| The Spring is that player— | 15 |
| An old love of mine! | |
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| All singers grow heavy: | |
| Their hours as they run | |
| Bite up all the blossoms, | |
| Suck up all the sun; | 20 |
| But I know a singer | |
| Delightsome—divine: | |
| The gay love—the green love— | |
| An old love of mine! | |
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