SONG IN THE SONGLESS - Claude McKay Poems

 
 

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SONG IN THE SONGLESS

They have no song, the sedges dry,
      And still they sing.
It is within my breast they sing,
      As I pass by.
Within my breast they touch a string,
      They wake a sigh.
There is but sound of sedges dry;
      In me they sing.