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Softly softly Niccolo Amati	A
What can put such fancies in your head	B
There go dream of your blue skied Cremona	C
While I ponder something you have said	B
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Something in that last low lovely cadence	D
Piercing the green dusk alone and far	E
Named a new room in the house of knowledge	F
Waiting unfrequented door ajar	E
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While you dream then let me unmolested	G
Pass in childish wonder through that door	H
Breathless touch and marvel at the beauties	I
Soon my wiser elders must explore	H
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Ah my Niccolo it's no great science	D
We shall ever conquer you and I	J
Yet when you are nestled at my shoulder	K
Others guess not half that we descry	K
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As all sight is but a finer hearing	L
And all color but a finer sound	M
Beauty but the reach of lyric freedom	N
Caught and quivering past all music's bound	M
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Life that faint sigh whispered from oblivion	C
Harks and wonders if we may not be	A
Five small wits to carry one great rhythmus	D
The vast theme of God's new symphony	A
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As fine sand spread on a disc of silver	K
At some chord which bids the motes combine	C
Heeding the hidden and reverberant impulse	D
Shifts and dances into curve and line	C
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The round earth too haply like a dust mote	O
Was set whirling her assigned sure way	P
Round this little orb of her ecliptic	Q
To some harmony she must obey	P
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Did the Master try the taut string merely	A
Give a touch and she must throb to time	R
Think you how his bow must rouse the echoes	D
Quailing triumphing on secure sublime	R
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Ah thought cannot far without the symbol	S
Help me little brother hold the trend	T
Dear good flesh that keeps the spirit steady	A
Lest it faint grown dizzy at thought's end	T
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Waves of sound Is this your thought Amati	A
Climbing into treble thin and clear	K
Past the silence change to waves of color	K
We must say when eye takes place of ear	K
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Not a bird song but it has for fellow	U
Some wood flower its speechless counterpart	V
Form and color moulded to one cadence	D
To voice something of the wild mute heart	V
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Thrushes we'll suppose have for their tune mates	D
The gold languorous lilies of the glade	W
And the whippoorwill that plaintive dreamer	K
Some dark purple flower that loves the shade	W
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The song sparrow tells me what the clover	K
Nods about beneath the gorgeous blue	X
While the snowballs tell me old love stories	D
Thistle birds half hinted as they flew	X
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April's faith in robin at his vespers	D
Breathes a prayer too in my lilac blooms	D
What the cloudy asters told the hillside	Y
My lone rainbird in the dusk resumes	D
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Bobolink is voice for apple blossom	N
Breezy abundant good for human joys	D
Oriole has touched the burning secret	Z
Poppies hide with their deliberate poise	D
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Tiny twin flowers what are they but fancies	D
Subtler than a field lark can express	D
Swallows make the low contented twitter	K
Lying just beyond the pansies' guess	D
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Yellowbird the hot noon's warbler pierces	D
Sense where tiger lilies may not pass	D
Are not crickets and all field wise creatures	D
Brahmins of the universal grass	D
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Saffron butterflies and mute ephemera	K
Doubt not have their songs too could we hear	K
Every raindrop is a sea sonorous	D
As the great worlds thundering sphere to sphere	K
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There's no silence and no dark forever	K
Clangoring suns to us are placid stars	D
Swift foot lightning with his henchman thunder	K
Lags behind these gnomes in Leyden jars	D
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Peal and flash and thrill and scent and savour	K
Pulse through rhythm to rapture and control	A2
Who shall say how far along or finely	A
The infinite tectonics of the soul	A2
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Low bred peoples Hottentots Basutos	D
Have a taste for scarlet and brass bands	D
Our friend Monet feeling red repulsive	B2
Sees blue shadows in pale purple lands	D
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Sees not only but instructs our seeing	L
Taught by him a twelvemonth we confess	D
Earth once robed in crude barbaric splendor	K
Has put on a softer lovelier dress	D
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Feast my eyes on some old Indian fabric	Q
Centuries of culture went to weave	C2
And I grow the fine fastidious artist	D2
No mere shop made textile can deceive	C2
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Red the bass and violet the treble	S
Soul may pass out where all color ends	D
Ends So we say meaning where the eyesight	E2
With some yet unborn perception blends	D
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You Amati never saw a sunset	F2
Hear tornadoes in a spider's loom	G2
I at my wits' end may still develop	H2
Unknown senses in life's larger room	G2
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Superhuman is not supernatural	S
How shall half way judge of journey done	C
Shall this germ and protoplast of being	L
Rest mid life and say his race is run	C
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Softly there my Niccolo a moment	I2
Shall I then discard my simpler joys	D
No for look you every sense's impulse	D
Is a means the master soul employs	D
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Test and use of all things lowest highest	D2
Are alone of import to the soul	A2
Joys of earth are journey aids to heaven	C
Garb of the new sainthood sane and whole	A2
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Earth one habitat of spirit merely	A
I must use as richly as I may	P
Touch environment with every sense tip	J2
Drink the well and pass my wander way	P
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Ah drink deep and let the parching morrow	K
Quench what thirst its newer need may bring	L
Slake the senses now that soul hereafter	K
Go not forth a starved defrauded thing	L
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Not for sense sake only but for soul sake	K2
That when soul must shed the leaves of sense	D
Sun and sap may solace and support her	K
Stored in those green hours for her defence	D
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Shall the grub deny himself the rose leaf	L2
That he may be moth before his time	R
Shall the grasshopper repress his drumbeats	D
For small envy of the kingbird's chime	R
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Certain half men never touched by worship	H2
Soil the goodly feast they cannot use	D
Others maimed too holding flesh a hindrance	D
Vilify the bounty they refuse	D
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He's most man who loves the purple shadows	D
Yet must love the flaring autumn too	X
Follow when the skrieling pipes bid forward	M2
Lie and gaze for hours into the blue	X
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He would have gone down with Alexander	K
Quelling unknown lands beneath the sun	C
Watched where Buddha in the Bo tree shadows	D
Saw this life's web woven and undone	C
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Freed his stifled heart in Shakespeare's people	S
Sweet and elemental and serene	C
Dared the unknown with Blake and Galileo	K
Fronted death with Daulac's seventeen	C
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So shall mighty peace possess his spirit	Z
Whom the noonday leads alone apart	V
Through the wind clear early Indian summer	K
Where no yearning more shall move his heart	V
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Wise and foot free of the tranquil tenor	K
He shall wayfare with the homeless tides	D
Time enough when life allures no longer	K
To frequent the tavern death provides	D
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Life be neither hermitage nor revel	S
Lent or carnival alone were vain	C
Sin and sainthood Help me little brother	K
With your largo finder thought again	C
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Lift uplift me higher still and higher	K
Climb and pause and tremble and plunge on	C
Till I toiling after you come breathless	D
Where the mountain tops are touched with dawn	C
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Dark this valley world and drenched with slumber	K
We have kept the centuries of night	E2
Cry Amati pierce the waiting stillness	D
Tremulous with forecast of the light	E2
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Cry Amati Melt the twilight dirges	D
In Te Deums fit for marching men	C
Good the days are chorusing shall triumph	N2
Though the far off morrows whisper When	C
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What is good I hear your soft string answer	K
I am that whereon the round world leans	D
I am every man's poor guess at wisdom	N
Evil is the soul's misuse of means	D
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Up through me with melody and meaning	L
Well the floods of being or subside	Y
The first dim desire of self for selfhood	Y
The last smile that puts all self aside	Y
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Hate is discord lessening through the ages	D
Anger a false note fear a slackened string	L
Key thy soul up to the wiser manhood	Y
Gentler lovelier joy from spring to spring	L
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Here in turn I help you little brother	K
Half surmise what you have half explained	Y
Store it by to ripen and repeat it	Y
Long hereafter as a glimpse you gained	Y
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When the nineteenth century was dying	L
From a strolling hand that held you dear	K
Appanage of time put in your keeping	L
For my far off heritor to hear	K
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I imagine how his eye will kindle	S
When he fondles you as I do now	C
Bends above you wooing like a lover	K
While you yield him all your heart knows how	C
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I shall have been dust a thousand summers	D
But my dear unprofitable dreams	D
Shall be part of all the good that thrills you	X
In the oversoul's orchestral themes	D
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What is good While God's unfinished opus	D
Multitudinous harmony obeys	D
Evil is a dissonance not a discord	Y
Soon to be resolved to happier phrase	D
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From time immemorial permitted	Y
Lest the too sweet melody grow tame	O2
And untouched of pathos or of daring	L
Hearts should never know what hearts proclaim	O2
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The unstained unconquerable valor	K
The unflinching loyalties of love	P2
Or if evil be at worst a blunder	K
No musician ever could approve	Q2
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The mere bungling of a hand that faltered	Y
Mine or his who bade the planets poise	D
What a thing unthinkable for smallness	D
Is your frayed E string one touch destroys	D
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How that sea gull out across the bay there	K
Rows himself at leisure up the blue	X
Evil the mere eddy from his wing sweep	R2
Good the morning path he must pursue	X
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Good you think and evil live together	K
Both persisting on from change to change	S2
Through interminable conservation	C
Primal powers no ruin can derange	S2
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Deed and accident alike unending	L
By eternal consequence of cause	D
No For good is impetus to Godward	Y
Evil but our ignorance of laws	D
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Say I let you spite of all endeavor	K
Mar some nocturne by a single note	Y
Is there immortality of discord	Y
In your failure to preserve the rote	Y
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When the sound shall pass my sense's confines	D
Melt away to color or thin flame	O2
Does it still malinger in the prism	N
Falsify the crucible with shame	O2
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Hardly For the melody and marring	L
When they put the dear oblivion on	C
Are become as fresh clay for the potter	K
Neither good nor bad for use anon	C
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Blighted rose and perfect shall commingle	S
In one excellence of garden mould	Y
Soul transfusing comeliness or blemish	T2
Can alone lend beauty to the old	Y
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While the streams go down among the mountains	D
Gathering rills and leaving sand behind	Y
Till at last the ocean sea receives them	U2
And they lose themselves among their kind	Y
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Man the joy born and the sorrow nurtured	Y
One with nothingness though all things be	A
Great lord Sirius and the moving planets	D
Fleet as fire germs in the torn up sea	A
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Linked to all his half accomplished fellows	D
Through unfrontiered provinces to range	S2
Man is but the morning dream of nature	K
Roused by some wild cadence weird and strange	S2
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Slowly therefore Niccolo and softly	A
With more memories than tongue can tell	V2
Lower me down the slope of life and leave me	A
Knowing the hereafter will be well	V2
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Close with Love is but the perfect knowledge	F
The one thing no failure can befall	W2
Lovingkindness betters loving credence	D
Love and only love is best of all	W2
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Beauty beauty beauty sense and seeming	L
With the soul of truth she calls her lord	Y
Stars and men the dust upon her garment	Y
Hope and fear the echoes of her word	Y
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How escape we then the rainbow's brothers	D
Endless being with each blade and sod	Y
Dust and shadow between whence and whither	K
Part of the tranquillity of God	Y