| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 589. World Music |
| | | By Frances Louisa Bushnell |
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| JUBILANT the music through the fields a-ringing,— | |
| Carol, warble, whistle, pipe,—endless ways of singing, | |
| Oriole, bobolink, melody of thrushes, | |
| Rustling trees, hum of bees, sudden little hushes, | |
| Broken suddenly again— | 5 |
| Carol, whistle, rustle, humming, | |
| In reiterate refrain, | |
| Thither, hither, going, coming, | |
| While the streamlets’ softer voices mingle murmurously together; | |
| Gurgle, whisper, lapses, plashes,—praise of love and summer weather. | 10 |
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| Hark! A music finer on the air is blowing,— | |
| Throbs of infinite content, sounds of things a-growing, | |
| Secret sounds, flit of bird under leafy cover, | |
| Odors shy floating by, clouds blown swiftly over, | |
| Kisses of the crimson roses, | 15 |
| Crosses of the lily-lances, | |
| Stirrings when a bud uncloses, | |
| Tripping sun and shadow dances, | |
| Murmur of aërial tides, stealthy zephyrs gliding, | |
| And a thousand nameless things sweeter for their hiding. | 20 |
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| Ah! a music more than these floweth on forever, | |
| In and out, yet all beyond our tracing or endeavor, | |
| Far yet clear, strange yet near, sweet with a profounder sweetness, | |
| Mystical, rhythmical, weaving all into completeness; | |
| For its wide, harmonious measures | 25 |
| 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. | 30 |
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