This Song is Mine

YOU MAY SNEER AN HOLLAR ABOUT THIS SONG;
And try to “give me a BAD TIME.”
But to me its fair as a summer day,
Down MELODY LANE to the far away,
And the paths to the Olden Time!

Out of the GOLD of the fading west,
On strings of the slanting rain;
ANGEL….bring me another song,
On the slanting strings of the rain!

You can laugh about “WHOSE BOYS THERE ARE”
In the shade of the appletree…
I have woven them into an ANGEL SONG….
AND THE SONG BELONGS TO ME!

Out of the DUST of a prairie road,
Softly the melodies chime-
Wrote on the clouds of the evening sky!
Played as the wings of the wind go by-
THIS SONG IS NOT YOURS……IT’S MINE

The road was steep and dark and long,
And though a bleak and lonely land-
but God gave me the GIFT OF SONG,
And put a lantern in my hand!

And I am faithful to my rhymes,
And though the dusty days they sing;
And where the wild wind leads away-
So short, the fleeting hours of May.

They have left her out there in her grave
North of town….
She can write no more letters to me;
But a BLUE FEATHER came, through the night,
Drifting down……
And I know that her HEART is set free!

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