Songs of the Silent World, and Other Poems
Songs of the Silent World, and Other Poems
By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
21 Feb, 2020
“Who shall tell the story
As it was? Write it with the heart's blood?
(Pale ink, alas!) Speak it with the soul's lips,
Or be dumb? Tell me, singers fled, and Song to come!
No answer; like a shell the silence curls, And far within it leans a whi
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“Who shall tell the story
As it was? Write it with the heart's blood?
(Pale ink, alas!) Speak it with the soul's lips,
Or be dumb? Tell me, singers fled, and Song to come!
No answer; like a shell the silence curls, And far within it leans a whisper out,
Breathless and inarticulate, and whirls And dies as dies an ailing dread or doubt.” Less