Calamus 21
Part of the cluster CALAMUS.
21.
MUSIC always round me, unceasing, unbeginning—yet long untaught I did not hear, But now the chorus I hear, and am elated, A tenor, strong, ascending, with power and health,
with glad notes of day-break I hear, A soprano, at intervals, sailing buoyantly over the
tops of immense waves, A transparent base, shuddering lusciously under and
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The triumphant tutti—the funeral wailings, with sweet flutes and violins—All these I fill myself
with; I hear not the volumes of sound merely—I am
moved by the exquisite meanings, I listen to the different voices winding in and out,
striving, contending with fiery vehemence to
excel each other in emotion, I do not think the performers know themselves—But
now I think I begin to know them.
Part of the cluster CALAMUS.