World Music
Ah! a music more than these floweth on forever,
In and out, yet all beyond our tracing or endeavor,
Far tho' clear, strange tho' near, sweet with a profounder sweetness,
Mystical, rhythmical, weaving all into completeness,
For its wide, harmonious measures
Not one earthly note let fall;
Sorrows, raptures, pains and pleasures,
All in it, and it in all.
Of earth's music the ennobler, of its discord the refiner,
Pipe of Pan was once its naming, now it hath a name diviner.
In and out, yet all beyond our tracing or endeavor,
Far tho' clear, strange tho' near, sweet with a profounder sweetness,
Mystical, rhythmical, weaving all into completeness,
For its wide, harmonious measures
Not one earthly note let fall;
Sorrows, raptures, pains and pleasures,
All in it, and it in all.
Of earth's music the ennobler, of its discord the refiner,
Pipe of Pan was once its naming, now it hath a name diviner.
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