"Ponder the tone"

by Robert Hillyer

Ponder the tone; the broken theme
Sounds once for us, and not for long.
It is easy to forget a dream
However exquisite it seem,
It is easy to forget a song.

The Master does but improvise,
The final music is not yet;
But when it shakes eternal skies
I would not have you quite forget
The music of the mortal dream
We shared in joy, though not for long.
Ponder the tone, the broken theme,
It is easy to forget a song.


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