“Silence” ( Edgar Lee Masters)

“I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
And the silence of the city when it pauses,
And the silence of a man and of a maiden,
And the silence of which music alone finds the word,
And the silence of the woods before the winds of spring begin,
And the silence of the sick
When their eyes roam about the room,
And I ask: for the depths
Of what use is the language?”