9.15.2004
Secret Music
I've had a certain Siegfried Sassoon poem echoing in my mind for the last few days. For me, the poem depicts the triumph of the human spirit in times of adversity (a favourite theme of mine). In any case, I just thought I might as well share...
Secret Music
I keep such music in my brain
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty garlanded in hell.
My dreaming spirit will not heed
The roar of guns that would destroy
My life that on the gloom can read
Proud-surging melodies of joy.
To the world's end I went, and found
Death in his carnival of glare;
But in my torment I was crowned,
And music dawned above despair.
Secret Music
I keep such music in my brain
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty garlanded in hell.
My dreaming spirit will not heed
The roar of guns that would destroy
My life that on the gloom can read
Proud-surging melodies of joy.
To the world's end I went, and found
Death in his carnival of glare;
But in my torment I was crowned,
And music dawned above despair.
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