JOHN GOULD FLETCHER: A DISTANT SONG (THAT IS WEARY WITH SORROW ...)

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Forever that strain of the harp which soothed the Cerberus and called me back to life is sounding. 

HDT

Whether awake or sleeping,
   I cannot rest for long:
By my casement comes creeping
  A distant song.

A song like the chiming of silver
  Bells which the breezes play,
Seeming to float for ever
  Towards an unseen day:

A song that is weary with sorrow,
  Yet knows not any defeat:
Through the past, through to-day, through to-morrow,
  It echoes on life’s long street.

Could I but make words of its power,
  Bring it from the future here,
Men’s souls would be waking, that hour,
  To the victory against fear.

But the vague sweet stanza befools me
  With its calm joy, time after time,
And no failure here ever schools me
  To cease from an idle rhyme.

That music afar, unspoken,
    ’Tis I have done it wrong:
I caught, and I have broken,
    A distant song. 

A Distant Song

John Gould Fletcher

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on August 29, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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si pudiera hacer palabras con su fuerza las almas humanas despertarían, a esa hora, a la victoria sobre el miedo Esa música lejana, no proferida, ese ha sido mi error: la tuve, y la he roto, esa canción lejana