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Robert W Service - Your Poem
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My poem may be yours indeed
In melody and tone,
If in its rhythm you can read
A music of your own;
If in its pale woof you can weave
Your lovelier design,
`Twill make my lyric, I believe,
        More yours than mine.

I`m but a prompter at the best;
Crude cues are all I give.
In simple stanzas I suggest -
`Tis you who make them live.
My bit of rhyme is but a frame,
And if my lines you quote,
I think, although they bear my name,
        `Tis you who wrote.

Yours is the beauty that you see
In any words I sing;
The magic and the melody
`Tis you, dear friend, who bring.
Yea, by the glory and the gleam,
The loveliness that lures
Your thought to starry heights of dream,
        The poem`s yours.
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