1988
Love Come and Love Gone
Composed by 
H. Leslie Adams
H. Leslie Adams Text by 
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson The Wider View Song Collection
"Love Come and Love Gone" is the fourth song of H. Leslie Adams' song cycle The Wider View.
Text
Love Come and Love Gone
by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Consider me a memory, a dream that passed away;
Or yet a flower that has blown and shattered in a day;
For passion sleeps, alas,
and keeps no vigil with the years
And wakens to no conjuring of orisons or tears.
Consider me a melody that served its simple turn,
Or but the residue of fire that settles in the urn,
For love defies pure reasoning and undeterred flows
Within, without the vassal heart—its reasoning, who knows?
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