| Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914. | | | | Music | | By Edward Robeson Taylor |
| | | THE MURMUROUS monotone of waving grain | |
| When winds are gently winging down the vale; | |
| The storm-voiced billows drowning men bewail; | |
| The pattering stroke of softly falling rain; | |
| The sighing leaves that bend to every tale | 5 |
| The breezes tell; the songster’s lilting strain, | |
| From feeblest note of all the joyful train | |
| To rapturous burst of peerless nightingale;— | |
| What are all these, and all that human ear | |
| In sweetest concord from their kin can hear, | 10 |
| But hints of deeper rhythms as yet unheard; | |
| That in the soul ineffable of things | |
| An ordered Music, by the eternal word, | |
| Throughout the vast of space divinely sings. | | | | |
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