< Poems by Isaac Rosenberg
A CARELESS HEART
A little breath can make a prayer,
A little wind can take it
And turn it back again to air:
Then say, why should you make it?
An ardent thought can make a word,
A little ear can hear it,
A careless heart forget it heard:
Then why keep ever near it?
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