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Littell's Living Age/Volume 160/Issue 2069/Schubert's Symphony in B Minor

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Littell's Living Age
Volume 160, Issue 2069 : Schubert's Symphony in B Minor by H. Havelock Ellis

Originally published in Academy.

143363Littell's Living AgeVolume 160, Issue 2069 : Schubert's Symphony in B MinorH. Havelock Ellis
I shudder at the awful airs that flow  Across my soul; I hear crushed hopes that wail  And flutter their brief wings and sudden fail —Wild tender cries that sing and dance and goIn wonderful sweet troops. I cannot know  What rends within my soul what unseen veil,  And tells anew what strangely well-known taleOf infinite gladness and of infinite woe.
Was I long since thrust forth from Heaven's door,  Where in that music I had borne my part?Or had this symphony its birth before  The pulse of nature turned to laws of art?O what familiar voice, from what far shore,  Calls to a voice that answers in my heart!