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Helas Lyrics by Thomas Pasatieri

Three Poems of Oscar Wilde

1999

To drift with every passion till my soul
Is a stringed lute on which can winds can play
Is it for this that I have given away
Mine ancient wisdom and austere control?
Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll
Scrawled over on some boyish holiday
With idle songs for pipe and virelay
Which do but mar the secret of the whole
Surely there was a time I might have trod
The sunlit heights, and from life's dissonance
Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God:
Is that time dead? lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance -
And must I lose a soul’s inheritance?

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"Helas" appears on "Three Poems of Oscar Wilde" in 1999.

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