Say something to me! I've waited so long -- Waited and wondered in vain; Only a sentence would fall like a song Over this listening pain -- Over a silence that glowers and frowns, -- Even my pencil to-night Slips in the dews of my sorrow and wounds Each tender word that I write.
Say something to me -- if only to tell Me you remember the past; Let the sweet words, like the notes of a bell, Ring out my vigil at last.
O it were better, far better than this Doubt and distrust in the breast, -- For in the wine of a fanciful kiss I could taste Heaven, and -- rest.
Say something to me! I kneel and I plead, In my wild need, for a word; If my poor heart from this silence were freed, I could soar up like a bird In the glad morning, and twitter and sing, Carol and warble and cry Blithe as the lark as he cruises awing Over the deeps of the sky.
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