O FOLD the psalmist said that the morning stars sing together, He said the rocks do sing and that the hills rejoice... There be ten million ears in this little city alone... How many have heard the rocks, the hills and the stars? Not I, not I, as I hurried uptown and downtown! I heard the wheels of the cars, the chatter of many mouths, I was in the opera house when it seemed almost to burst with music, I heard the laughter of children, and the venom of mixed malicious tongues, But neither the stars I heard nor the muted rocks nor the hills! David, of Asia, I do hear now... I do hear now the music of the spheres -- I have stepped one step into the desert of Loneliness, I have turned my ear from the world to my own self... I have paused, stood still, listened. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX by ROBERT BROWNING THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 25 by THOMAS CAMPION SPELT FROM SIBYL'S LEAVES by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS AMOR MUNDI by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI TO CHLOE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS ALL THIS by REBA MAXWELL AVERY |