Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер)
The New Day. Part 3. 26. “What Can Love Do for Thee, Love?”
What can love do for thee, Love? Can it make the green fields greener; Bluer the skies, and bluer The eyes of the blue-eyed flowers? Can it make the May-day showers More warm and sweet; serener The heavens after the rain? The sunset's radiant splendor More exquisite and tender? The Northern Star more sure? Can it take the pang from pain? (O Love, remember the curtain Of cloud that lifted last night And showed the silver light Of a star!) Can it make more certain The heart of the heart of all, The good that works at the root— The singing soul of love That throbs in flower and fruit, In man and earth and brute, In hell, and heaven above? Can its low voice musical Make dear the day and the night?
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