Khristna And His Flute

Be still, my heart, and listen,

For sweet and yet acute

I hear the wistful music

Of Khristna and his flute.

Across the cool, blue evenings,

Throughout the burning days,

Persuasive and beguiling,

He plays and plays and plays.

Ah, none may hear such music

Resistant to its charms,

The household work grows weary,

And cold the husband’s arms.

I must arise and follow,

To seek, in vain pursuit,

The blueness and the distance,

The sweetness of that flute!

In linked and liquid sequence,

The plaintive notes dissolve

Divinely tender secrets

That none but he can solve.

Oh, Khristna, I am coming,

I can no more delay.

“My heart has flown to join thee,”

How can my footsteps stay?

Beloved, such thoughts have peril;

The wish is in my mind

That I had fired the jungle,

And left no leaf behind,–

Burnt all bamboos to ashes,

And made their music mute,–

To save thee from the magic

Of Khristna and his flute.

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• Hope A-Left Behind by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Heedless O’ My Love by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Haven Woones Fortune A-Twold by William Barnes by William Barnes
• The Happy Days When I Wer Young by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Hallowed Pleäces by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Gwain To Feäir by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Gwaïn To Brookwell by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Gwaïn Down The Steps Vor Water by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Guy Faux’s Night by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Grief An’ Gladness by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Grammer’s Shoes by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Grammer A-Crippled by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Good Meäster Collins by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Gammony Gaÿ by William Barnes by William Barnes
• A Father Out, An’ Mother Hwome by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Farmer’s Son by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Fanny’s Be’th-Day by William Barnes by William Barnes
• False Friends-Like by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Evenèn Twilight by William Barnes by William Barnes
• Evenèn Light by William Barnes by William Barnes

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