Italian Music in Dakota
Key
| Textual Feature | Appearance |
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| Overwritten | brown with strikethrough |
| Added inline | purple with double underline |
| Uncertain | gray with wavy underline |
| Supplied from another source | turquoise with brackets |
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| Long deletion | gray background with top and bottom border |
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sundown,From
In
dulcet strains, in flutes' & cornets' notes,
Ray'd in the limpid, yellow, slanting sundown;
Electric, pensive, turbulent, artificial,
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(Yet ^strangely fitting
thee, O
nNature, even here—mean-
ings unknown before, Subtler than ever—more harmony—as if born
here—related here, [cut away] Not to the citys frescoed rooms—not to the
audience of the opera house, Sounds, songs, trills, wandering strains, as
reallyhome return'd
here at home;
Sonnambula's innocent love—trios,
with
Norma's anguish, And thy extatic cohorus Poliuto;)
Ray'd in the limpid, yellow slanting sundown,
Music—Italian music in Dakota.
While Nature, sovereign of this
gnarled realm, Lurking insome
his
hidden, barbaric, grim
recesses,(Acknowledging rapport, however
far‑removed,
(As some old root, or soil of earth,
its
own
true-born flower or fruit,
Listens, well-pleased,
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^Italian Music in Dakota
["The Seventeenth—the finest Regimental Band I ever heard."]
Through the soft evening air, enwinding all, Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, ^endless wilds, Ray'd in the limpid, yellow slantingsundown,
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(Yet ^strangely fitting
thee, O
ings unknown before, Subtler than ever—more harmony—as if born
here—related here, [cut away] Not to the citys frescoed rooms—not to the
audience of the opera house, Sounds, songs, trills, wandering strains, as
really
Norma's anguish, And thy extatic c
gnarled realm, Lurking in
recesses,
