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Frederick Philip Grove
THE DIRGE
(IM 15, 1-33)
e-Edition by Gaby Divay
© August 2007
How to cite this e-Edition
of Grove's The DIRGE
XXIV. "I wish I had..."[17]
by
Frederick Philip Grove
I wish I had a voice to
sing your praise;
Or a hand skilled to wake the mournful lyre;
Or thought to write the story of your days;
Or fingers fit to mould your shape entire;
Or had the power to reconstruct the world
In ways our earthly pattern to excel
Where minutes should be crystal drops that purled
From out a fountain, balanced ere they fell.
For such a world, reconstituted, would
Provide for you a never-dying fame;
In gratitude its future dwellers should,
Commemorating, name it by your name.
I wish I could one particle preserve
Of what you were; could speak or sing or be
As looked your eye, as bent the telling curve
Of perfect lips parting to smile at me.
Then could I feel I had not lived in vain
Nor wept in vain at that which I had lost;
That you had lived, would be a lasting gain
For all mankind to be, though at my cost.
In Memoriam 15/24 |
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Grove, Frederick Philip. POEMS:
In Memoriam Phyllis May Grove. THE DIRGE (IM15,1-33).
e-Edition, Gaby Divay. Winnipeg: UM Archives & Special
Collections, ©2007.
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