[Ttha-potm] "The Selfsame Song" TTHA Poem of the Month for July 2009

[jwwhipple1 at comcast.net]

Dear Betty, 

Here it is. Please do enjoy it as I do. 


	Never Again Would Bird's Song Be the Same 
	
	

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			He would declare and could himself believe 
That the birds there in all the garden round 
>From having heard the daylong voice of Eve 
Had added to their own an oversound, 
Her tone of meaning but without the words. 
Admittedly an eloquence so soft 
Could only have had an influence on birds 
When call or laughter carried it aloft. 
Be that as may be, she was in their song. 
Moreover her voice upon their voices crossed 
Had now persisted in the woods so long 
That probably it never would be lost. 
Never again would birds' song be the same. 
And to do that to birds was why she came. 

Robert Frost All best wishes, 
Julian 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Betty Cortus" <bcortus at HARDY-L.COM> 
To: ttha-potm at coyote.csusm.edu 
Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2009 3:43:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [Ttha-potm] "The Selfsame Song" TTHA Poem of the Month for July 2009 

Yes! Please do Julian. I love it too. Quite coincidentally, I was 
only just thinking of Frost earlier today. I was lying on my bed 
looking out, reciting to myself, "tree at my window, window 
tree . . . " not all that that relevant to Hardy, but birds and 
trees do go together I suppose. 

Betty 

On Jul 4, 2009, at 12:30 PM, <jwwhipple1 at comcast.net> 
<jwwhipple1 at comcast.net> wrote: 

> Dear Friends, 
> 
> This poem took me back to one of my favourite Robert Frost 
> poems, "Never Again Would Birds" Song Be the Same.". I shall be 
> glad to give it to you but don't want to take up your space. 
> Suffice it to say there is a relation and it is a lovely sonnet. 



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