Let your song be delicate.
The skies declare
No war — the eyes of lovers
Wake everywhere.
Let your voice be delicate.
How faint a thing
Is Love, little Love crying
Under the Spring.
Let your song be delicate.
The flowers can hear:
Too well they know the tremble,
Of the hollow year.
Let your voice be delicate.
The bees are home:
All their day's love is sunken
Safe in the comb.
Let your song be delicate.
Sing no loud hymn:
Death is abroad . . . Oh, the black season!
The deep — the dim!
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Comments1I remember reading "Song be Delicate" by John Shaw Neilson years ago when I was younger, and it still remains one of my favorite poems. As a student, I find the line "Let your song be delicate" particularly captivating. It's such a beautiful work!