Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914.
By Edward Robeson TaylorMusic
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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
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,
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.