Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MUSIC, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER


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First Line: I see small difference
Last Line: Have flown an evening's journey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


I SEE small difference
'Twixt one sound and its next. All seem akin
And run on the same feet, ever.
Peace! Thou want'st
One heavenly sense, and speak'st in ignorance.
Seest thou no differing shadows which divide
The rose and poppy? 'Tis the same with sounds.
There's not a minute in the round of time
But's hinged with different music. In that small space
Between the thought and its swift utterance --
Ere silence buds to sound -- the angels, listening,
Hear infinite varieties of song!
And they who turn the lightning-rapid spheres
Have flown an evening's journey.





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