<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415787" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Air of Lorelei</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alone on a hillside of heather,<br>I lay with dark thoughts in my mind,<br>In the midst of the beautiful weather<br>I was deaf, I was dumb, I was blind.<br>I knew not the glories around me,<br>I counted the world as it seems,<br>Till a spirit of melody found me,<br>And taught me in visions and dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the sound of a chorus of voices<br>Came gathering up from below,<br>And I heard how all Nature rejoices,<br>And moves with a musical flow.<br>O strange! we are lost in delusion,<br>Our ways and doings are wrong,<br>We are drowning, in wilful confusion,<br>The notes of that wonderful song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But listen, what harmony holy<br>Is mingling its notes with our own!<br>The discord is vanishing slowly,<br>And melts in that dominant tone.<br>And they that have heard it can never<br>Return to confusion again,<br>Their voices are music for ever,<br>And join in the mystical strain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No mortal can utter the beauty<br>That dwells in the song that they sing;<br>They move in the pathway of duty,<br>They follow the steps of their King.<br>I would barter the world and its glory,<br>That vision of joy to prolong,<br>Or to hear and remember the story<br>That lies in the heart of their song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Clerk+Maxwell">James Clerk Maxwell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415787" data-title="To the Air of Lorelei de James Clerk Maxwell" data-description="I. Alone on a hillside of heather, I lay with dark thoughts in my mind, In the midst of the beautiful weather I was deaf, I was dumb, I was blind. I knew not the glories around me, I counted the world as it seems, Till a spirit of melody found me..."></div> </div> </div>

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