Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

 SONG'S ETERNITY

What is song's eternity?
  Come and see.
Can it noise and bustle be?
  Come and see.
Praises sung or praises said
  Can it be?
Wait awhile and these are dead --

  Sigh, sigh;
Be they high or lowly bred  They die.

What is song's eternity?
Come and see.
Melodies of earth and sky,

Here they be.
Song once sung to Adam's ears
Can it be?
Ballads of six thousand years
Thrive, thrive;
Songs awaken with the spheres
Alive.

Mighty songs that miss decay,

What are they?
Crowds and cities pass away
Like a day.
Books are out and books are read;

What are they?
Years will lay them with the dead --
Sigh, sigh;
Trifles unto nothing wed,
They die.