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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
A song for Old Love by Muriel Stewart, read for
LibriVox dot Org by TRESSA. Sanders on January twentieth, twenty
twenty four. There shall be a song for both of
us that day, though fools say you have long outlived
your songs, and when perhaps because your hair is gray,

(00:24):
you go unsung to whom all praise belongs, and no
men kiss your hands. Your fragile hands, folded like empty
shells on sea spurned sands, and you that were dawn
whereat men shout at once, are sunset now, But with

(00:46):
one worshiper. Then to your twilight heart, this song shall
be sweeter than those that did your youth announce, For
your brave, beautiful spirit is lovely than once your lovely
body was to me. Your folded hands and your shut
eyelids stir a passion. That time has crowned with sanctity.

(01:11):
Young fools shall wonder why your youth being over, you
are so sung still, But your heart will know that
he who loved your soul was your true lover, and
the last song alone was worthy you. End of poem.
This recording is in the public domain.