What is this creature, Music, save the Art, The Rhythm that… - John Masefield

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What is this creature, Music, save the Art,
The Rhythm that the planets journey by?
The living Sun-Ray entering the heart,
Touching the Life with that which cannot die?

John Masefield

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John Edward Masefield, OM (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer; he was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death.

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Alternative Names: John Edward Masefield

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From '41 to '51
I was my folk's contrary son;
I bit my father's hand right through
And broke my mother's heart in two.

My blood did leap, my flesh did revel,
Saul Kane was tokened to the devil.

Will you not come home, brother? you have been long away,
It's April, and blossom time, and white is the spray;
And bright is the sun, brother, and warm is the rain, -
Will you not come home, brother, home to us again?

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