The passion you forbade my lips to utter
Will not be silenced. You must
hear it in
The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter:
And when the
tempest nears, with wail and din,
I know your calm forgetfulness is
broken,
And to your heart you whisper,
"He has spoken."
All nature understands and sympathises
With human passion. When the
restless sea
Turns in its futile search for peace, and rises
To plead and
to pursue, it pleads for me.
And with each desperate billow's anguished
fretting.
Your heart must tell you,
"He is not forgetting."
When unseen hands in lightning strokes are writing
Mysterious words upon a
cloudy scroll,
Know that my pent-up passion is inditing
A cypher message
for your woman's soul;
And when the lawless winds rush by you
shrieking,
Let your heart say,
"Now his despair is speaking."
Love comes, nor goes, at beck or call of reason,
Nor is love silent,
though it says no word;
By day or night, in any clime or season,
A
dominating passion must be heard.
So shall you hear, through Junes and
through Decembers,
The voice of Nature saying,
"He remembers."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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