The Songless Bird

O, songless bird, speak thine plight to thee! I awoke to hear thine tears in the deepest pit of thy slumber, My songless bird, the night has stolen thine heav'nly ballad, And given thee a life of sorrow, Fly not away from thine hands and look not away from thy loving gaze, I shall hear thine divine song once more, Hear it ring! Like church bells in thine pure heart, And shatter the torments of hell with thine perilous love, Frost and fire, shadow and dawn, life and dream, Only thine melodic words, gilded threads of thine shining youth, Lips crimson with violent ardor, Only, could pour forth the waters to cascade into the cistern of thy lust for song!