Canadian Singers and Their Songs/Marjorie Pickthall

by Marjorie Pickthall

MARJORIE PICKTHALL

AUTHOR OF "THE DRIFT OF PINIONS AND OTHER POEMS," ETC.

On a Violet Leaf
from Keats’ Grave.
_______..______

After the sharp salt kiss,
Blossom and thorn of grief,
Time has no more than this,—
A leaf.

Out of the battled years,
The glory and the wrong,
Time gives, for all our tears,—
A song.

Is it of fragrance made,
Woven and rhymed of light,
The voice that from some shade
Silvers the night?

When the last shadows slope
And day's own rose is pale,—
O love, immortal hope,—
His nightingale!

Marjorie L. Pickthall.