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In Lola Schaefer's studio in the Tower	A
Tea being served to painters poets singers	B
Herr Ludwig Haibt a none too welcome guest	C
Of vital body brisk too loud of voice	D
And Lilli Alm crossed swords	E
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It came about	F
When Ludwig Haibt said Have you read the papers	B
About this Elenor Murray And then said	G
I tried to train her voice she was a failure	A
And Lilli Alm who taught the art of song	H
Looked at him half contemptuous and said	G
Why did she fail To which Herr Ludwig answered	I
She tried too hard She made her throat too tense	J
And made its muscles stiff by too much thought	K
Anxiety for song the vocal triumph	L
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O yes I understand said Lilli Aim	M
Then stabbing him she added since you dropped	N
The Perfect Institute and dropped the idea	O
Which stresses training muscles of the tongue	P
And all that thing be fair and shoulder half	Q
The failure of poor Elenor Murray on	R
Your system's failure For I chanced to know	S
The girl myself She started work with me	T
And I am sure that if I had been able	U
With time enough I could have done it too	V
To rid her mind of muscles and to fix	W
The thought alone of music in her mind	X
She would have sung Now listen Ludwig Haibt	X
You've come around to see that song's the thing	Y
I take a pupil and I say to her	A
The mind must fix itself on music say	Z
I would make song pure tones and beautiful	U
That comes from spirit from the Plato rapture	A
Which gets the idea It is well to know	S
Some physiology I grant to know	S
When how to move the vocal organs feel	A2
How they are moving through the ear to place	B2
These organs in relation and to know	S
The soft palate is drawn against the hard	X
The tongue can take positions numerous	C2
Can be used at the root a throaty voice	D
Or with the tip produce expressiveness	D
But what must we avoid rigidity	X
And if that girl was over zealous then	D2
So much the more her teaching should have kept	X
Mind off the larynx and the tongue and fixed	X
Upon the spiritual matters so to give	E2
The snake like power of loosening contracting	Y
The muscles used for singing Ludwig Haibt	X
I can forgive your system since abandoned	X
I can't forgive your words to day who say	D
This woman failed for trying over much	F2
When I know that your system made her throw	S
An energy truly wonderful on muscles	D
And when I think of your book where you said	X
The singing voice is the result observe	G2
Of physical conditions like the strings	D
Or tubes of brass While granting that it's well	H2
To know the art of tuning up the strings	D
And how to place them after all the art	X
Of tuning and of placing comes from mind	X
The idea and the art of making song	H
Is just the breathing of the perfect spirit	X
Upon the strings The throat is but the leaves	D
Let them be flexible the mouth's the flower	A
The tone the perfume And your olden way	D
Of harping on the larynx well since you	V
Turned from it I'm ungenerous perhaps	D
To scold you thus to day	D
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But this I say	D
Let us be frank as teachers Take the fetich	F2
Of breathing and see how you cripple talent	X
Or take that matter of the laryngyscope	I2
Whereby you photograph a singer's throat	X
Caruso's Galli Curci's at the moment	X
Of greatest beauty in song and thus preserve	G2
In photographs before you how the muscles	D
Looked and were placed that moment Then attempt	X
To get the like effect by placing them	J2
In similar fashion Oh you know Herr Ludwig	K2
These fetiches go by One thing remains	D
The idea in the soul of beauty music	L2
The hope to give it forth	M2
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Alas to think	N2
So many souls are wasted while we teach	F2
This thing or that The strong survive of course	D
But take this Elenor Murray why that girl	O2
Was just a flame I never saw such hunger	A
For self development and beauty richness	D
In all experience in life I knew her	A
That's why I say so take her as I say	D
And put her to a practice yours we'll say	D
Where this great zeal she had is turned and pressed	X
Upon the physical just the very thing	Y
To make her throat constrict and fill her up	I2
With over anxiety and make her fail	P2
When had she come to me at first this passion	Q2
Directed to the beauty the idea	X
Had put her soul at ease to ease her body	X
Which gradually and beautifully had answered	X
That flame of hers	D
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Well Ludwig Haibt you're punished	X
For wasting several years upon a system	R2
Since put away as half erroneous	D
If not quite worthless But I must confess	D
Since I have censured you to my own sin	S2
This girl ran out of money came to me	X
And told me so To which I said Too bad	X
You will have money later when you do	V
Come back to me She stood a silent moment	X
Her hand upon the knob I saw her tears	D
Just little dim tears then she said good bye	T2
And vanished from me	X
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Well I now repent	X
I who have thought of beauty all my life	U2
And taught the art of sound made beautiful	U
Let slip a chance for beauty why I think	N2
A beauty just as great as song You see	X
I had a chance to serve a hungering soul	V2
I could have said just let the money go	S
Or let it go until you get the money	X
I let that chance for beauty slip Even now	W2
I see poor Elenor Murray at the door	X2
Who paused no doubt in hope that I would say	D
What I thought not to say	D
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So Ludwig Haibt	X
We are a poor lot let us have some tea	X
We are a poor lot Ludwig Haibt replied	X
But since this is confessional I absolve you	V
If you'll permit me from your sin Will you	V
Absolve me if I say I'm sorry too	V
I'll tell you something it is really true	V
I changed my system more I think because	D
Of what I learned from teaching Elenor Murray	X
Than on account of any other person	Q2
She demonstrated better where my system	R2
Was lacking than all pupils that I had	X
And so I changed it and of course I say	D
The thing is music just as poets say	D
The thing is beauty not the rhyme and words	D
With which they bring it instruments that's all	Y2
And not the thing but beauty	X
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So they talked	X
Forgave each other And that very day	D
Two priests were talking of confessionals	D
A mile or so from the Tower where Lilli Alm	Z2
And Ludwig Haibt were having tea You say	D
The coroner was ignorant of this	D
What is the part it plays with Elenor Murray	X
Or with the inquest Wait a little yet	X
And see if Merival has told to him	A3
What thing of value touching Elenor Murray	X
Is lodged in Father Whimsett's heart or words	D

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