Katharine Lee Bates - Only a Year lyrics

Only a year, but how art thou exalted In that remoteness of unanswering d**h! Not words could utter what thy silence saith, For oft in fellowship thy words we faulted, Pointing how here and there the logic halted; But now that God hath hushed the laboring breath, Thy silence all thy words interpreteth, Serene, majestic silence o'er us vaulted As the blue arch of sky. Only a year, And thou, who wast familiar, art become A name of awe. What ranked as commonplace, Mere daily running of the daily race, Is waxen to heroic. Life is dumb And waits on d**h to make her meanings clear.