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Say something to me! I've waited so long -- / Waited and wondered in vain; / Only a sentence would fall like a song / Over this listening pain -- / Over a silence that glowers and frowns, -- / Even my pencil to-night / Slips in the dews of my sorrow and wounds / Each tender word that I write.
Say something to me -- if only to tell / Me you remember the past; / Let the sweet words, like the notes of a bell, / Ring out my vigil at last.
O it were better, far better than this / Doubt and distrust in the breast, -- / For in the wine of a fanciful kiss / I could taste Heaven, and -- rest.
Say something to me! I kneel and I plead, / In my wild need, for a word; / If my poor heart from this silence were freed, / I could soar up like a bird / In the glad morning, and twitter and sing, / Carol and warble and cry / Blithe as the lark as he cruises awing / Over the deeps of the sky.