| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 179. Unsung |
| | | By Nettie Palmer |
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| WHEN shall I make a song for you, my love? | |
| When you are nigh me? | |
| Not so, for then the hours unnamed go by me, | |
| Flocking like dove on dove. | |
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| When shall that song for you be found, my mate? | 5 |
| When I wait lonely? | |
| Not so, for then am I a mourner only, | |
| Begging without the gate. | |
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| Never in words that happy song will rise, | |
| Yet you will feel it,— | 10 |
| Through days your love makes glad I shall reveal it, | |
| Through years your love makes wise. | |
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