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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118125" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Music of the World and of the Soul</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should I say I see the things I see not?<br>Why be and be not?<br>Show love for that I love not, and fear for what I fear not?<br>And dance about to music that I hear not?<br>Who standeth still i’ the street<br>Shall be hustled and justled about;<br>And he that stops i’ the dance shall be spurned by the dancers’ feet,<br>Shall be shoved and be twisted by all he shall meet,<br>And shall raise up an outcry and rout;<br>And the partner, too,<br>What ’s the partner to do?<br>While all the while ’tis but, perchance, an humming in mine ear,<br>That yet anon shall hear,<br>And I anon, the music in my soul,<br>In a moment read the whole;<br>The music in my heart,<br>Joyously take my part,<br>And hand in hand, and heart with heart, with these retreat, advance;<br>And borne on wings of wavy sound,<br>Whirl with these around, around,<br>Who here are living in the living dance<br>Why forfeit that fair chance?<br>Till that arrive, till thou awake,<br>Of these, my soul, thy music make,<br>And keep amid the throng,<br>And turn as they shall turn, and bound as they are bounding,<br>Alas! alas! alas! and what if all along<br>The music is not sounding?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are there not, then, two musics unto men?<br>One loud and bold and coarse,<br>And overpowering still perforce<br>All tone and tune beside;<br>Yet in despite its pride<br>Only of fumes of foolish fancy bred,<br>And sounding solely in the sounding head<br>The other, soft and low,<br>Stealing whence we not know,<br>Painfully heard, and easily forgot,<br>With pauses oft and many a silence strange<br>(And silent oft it seems, when silent it is not),<br>Revivals too of unexpected change<br>Haply thou think’st ’twill never be begun,<br>Or that ’t has come, and been, and passed away<br>Yet turn to other none,<br>Turn not, oh, turn not thou!<br>But listen, listen, listen, if haply be heard it may;<br>Listen, listen, listen, is it not sounding now?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, and as thought of some departed friend<br>By death or distance parted will descend,<br>Severing, in crowded rooms ablaze with light,<br>As by a magic screen, the seer from the sight<br>(Palsying the nerves that intervene<br>The eye and central sense between);<br>So may the ear,<br>Hearing not hear,<br>Though drums do roll, and pipes and cymbals ring;<br>So the bare conscience of the better thing<br>Unfelt, unseen, unimaged, all unknown,<br>May fix the entrancèd soul ’mid multitudes alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><div class=q>
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