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lisa
Within these walls of silence
The quiet beauty waits
The wise one passes sentence
But youth’s thirst it will not sate
Fie on those who dare
To deny the plea of heart
The silent walls aware
Of the impending gape of earth
The old and wise stir meaning
Whilst the quiet beauty seethes
Interrupted by walls new singing
As plaster and rock breathes
How now this new life urging
As all around lies still
Why bent on silence purging
How now this new found will?
This newborn spake
As the observed grew pale
The wise one awake
As newborn’s utterings ail
Wisdom seeketh not to prove
Where experience has taught
The ignorant will not be moved
Where all others aught
