<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450026" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song For The Last Act</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that I have your face by heart, I look<br>Less at its features than its darkening frame<br>Where quince and melon, yellow as young flame,<br>Lie with quilled dahlias and the shepherd's crook.<br>Beyond, a garden, There, in insolent ease<br>The lead and marble figures watch the show<br>Of yet another summer loath to go<br>Although the scythes hang in the apple trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that I have your face by heart, I look.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that I have your voice by heart, I read<br>In the black chords upon a dulling page<br>Music that is not meant for music's cage,<br>Whose emblems mix with words that shake and bleed.<br>The staves are shuttled over with a stark<br>Unprinted silence. In a double dream<br>I must spell out the storm, the running stream.<br>The beat's too swift. The notes shift in the dark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that I have your voice by heart, I read.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that I have your heart by heart, I see<br>The wharves with their great ships and architraves;<br>The rigging and the cargo and the slaves<br>On a strange beach under a broken sky.<br>O not departure, but a voyage done!<br>The bales stand on the stone; the anchor weeps<br>Its red rust downward, and the long vine creeps<br>Beside the salt herb, in the lengthening sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that I have your heart by heart, I see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louise+Bogan">Louise Bogan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450026" data-title="Song For The Last Act de Louise Bogan" data-description="Now that I have your face by heart, I look Less at its features than its darkening frame Where quince and melon, yellow as young flame, Lie with quilled dahlias and the shepherd's crook. Beyond, a garden, There, in insolent ease The lead and marbl..."></div> </div> </div>

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