the children of the night-第9节
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All made a magic symphony; but when
I thought upon the coming of hard men
To cut those patriarchal trees away;
And turn to gold the silver of that spray;
I shuddered。 Yet a gladness now and then
Did wake me to myself till I was glad
In earnest; and was welcoming the time
For screaming saws to sound above the chime
Of idle waters; and for me to know
The jealous visionings that I had had
Were steps to the great place where trees and torrents go。
L'Envoi
Now in a thought; now in a shadowed word;
Now in a voice that thrills eternity;
Ever there comes an onward phrase to me
Of some transcendent music I have heard;
No piteous thing by soft hands dulcimered;
No trumpet crash of blood…sick victory;
But a glad strain of some still symphony
That no proud mortal touch has ever stirred。
There is no music in the world like this;
No character wherewith to set it down;
No kind of instrument to make it sing。
No kind of instrument? Ah; yes; there is!
And after time and place are overthrown;
God's touch will keep its one chord quivering。
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