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Aftermath: Grief Lyrics by Ned Rorem

Aftermath

2002

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;
That only men incredulous of despair
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God's throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness
In souls as countries lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute Heavens. Deep-hearted man, express
Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death --
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath
Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:
If it could weep, it could arise and go
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Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem

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