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First Line: Wide as the world is, music abounds
Last Line: Reveals new song to heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund


WIDE as the world is, music abounds;
Time has a legion of lovely sounds
From the soonest blackbird to latest bee
That murmurs along his honeying rounds;
Surpassing those, one anthem is sweet
As ever the message of Paraclete,
When the kiss of Spring
Says all must sing
And the host of secrets are bright on the wing.
Then the willow, that last in the moon stood numb,
Finds its Apollo-vesture come,
And, waiting on zephyr-sense so long,
Communes its sudden vein of song
Till on to the white and blue serene
One willow sings from a hamlet green.

Long are the sighs that lull the sleep
Of breathing youngness in such new hours.
Breezes are come to dance the flowers
But from what deep,
What siren shores!
Such nights, the moon's still self can stir
The feathery spray of this one tree,
And allure the least to tune with her --
She sways these leaves that sways the sea.
And far I hear the answer given;
Responding triumph will not pause,
Dares trespass the ethereal laws.
The ploughman's mark, the hatchet's toy,
Magicked into a winged Joy,
Reveals new song to Heaven.





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