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NOCTURNE (AN ECHO OF CHOPIN), by                    
First Line: "wind, and the sound of a sea"
Last Line: And earth redemands us once more
Subject(s): "chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849);


WIND, and the sound of a sea
Heard in the night from afar,
Spending itself on an unknown shore,
Feeling its way o'er an unseen floor
Lighted by moon nor star;
Telling a tale to the listening ear
Of wounds and woes that the rolling year
Hath brought to the human heart;
Telling of passion and innermost pain,
Sinking and swooning, and growing again,
As the wind and the waves take part;
Lifting a voice to the voiceless skies,
Tender entreaties that faint for replies,
Pauses of sorrow that pass into sighs
Born of a secret despair;
Fluttering back on the clear tide of tone,
Gathering in force till the melody's grown
Strong to interpret the accents unknown
Haunting the dark fields of air;
Speaking the longings of life, the full soul's
Hidden desires in music that rolls
Wave-like in search of a shore;
Eddies of harmony, floating around,
Widen in circles of lessening sound,
Die in the distance, till silence is found
And earth redemands us once more.





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