Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1914 — “THAT STRAIN AGAIN.” [ARTICLE]

“THAT STRAIN AGAIN.”

SWEET is the voice that sings, and sweet the air, But only sweet to me because they bring Back perfectly to my remembering A tune as sad and passionate as prayer— A tune 1 heard when life and love weie fair; When all the strong, sweet perfumes of the spring Did so about my lady’s presence cling. They seemed her very loveliness to share. So when 1 hear this tune that other strain Revives within me. and I see again My lady's face; yea. then 1 do rejoice. Recalling half lost beauties of her voice: A little then the present oft 1 cast And walk 'mid lovely ruins of the past. —Philip Bourke Marston.