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Proud music of the storm,
Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies,
Strong hum of forest tree-tops—wind of the mountains,
Personified dim shapes—you hidden orchestras,
You serenades of phantoms1 with instruments alert,
Blending with Nature's rhythmus all the tongues of nations;
You chords left as by vast composers—you choruses,
You formless, free, religious dances—you from the Orient,
You undertone of rivers, roar of pouring cataracts2,
You sounds from distant guns with galloping3 cavalry4,
Echoes of camps with all the different bugle-calls,
Trooping tumultuous, filling the midnight late, bending me powerless,
Entering my lonesome slumber-chamber, why have you seiz'd me?
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Come forward O my soul, and let the rest retire,
Listen, lose not, it is toward thee they tend,
Parting the midnight, entering my slumber-chamber,
For thee they sing and dance O soul.
A festival song,
The duet of the bridegroom and the bride, a marriage-march,
With lips of love, and hearts of lovers fill'd to the brim with love,
The red-flush'd cheeks and perfumes, the cortege swarming6 full of
friendly faces young and old,
To flutes7' clear notes and sounding harps8' cantabile.
Now loud approaching drums,
Victoria! seest thou in powder-smoke the banners torn but flying?
the rout10 of the baffled?
Hearest those shouts of a conquering army?
(Ah soul, the sobs11 of women, the wounded groaning12 in agony,
The hiss13 and crackle of flames, the blacken'd ruins, the embers of cities,
The dirge14 and desolation of mankind.)
Now airs antique and mediaeval fill me,
I see and hear old harpers with their harps at Welsh festivals,
I hear the minnesingers singing their lays of love,
I hear the minstrels, gleemen, troubadours, of the middle ages.
Now the great organ sounds,
Tremulous, while underneath15, (as the hid footholds of the earth,
On which arising rest, and leaping forth16 depend,
All shapes of beauty, grace and strength, all hues17 we know,
Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol18 and
play, the clouds of heaven above,)
The strong base stands, and its pulsations intermits not,
Bathing, supporting, merging19 all the rest, maternity20 of all the rest,
And with it every instrument in multitudes,
The players playing, all the world's musicians,
The solemn hymns21 and masses rousing adoration23,
All passionate24 heart-chants, sorrowful appeals,
The measureless sweet vocalists of ages,
And for their solvent25 setting earth's own diapason,
Of winds and woods and mighty26 ocean waves,
A new composite orchestra, binder27 of years and climes, ten-fold renewer,
As of the far-back days the poets tell, the Paradiso,
The straying thence, the separation long, but now the wandering done,
The journey done, the journeyman come home,
And man and art with Nature fused again.
Tutti! for earth and heaven;
(The Almighty28 leader now for once has signal'd with his wand.)
The manly29 strophe of the husbands of the world,
And all the wives responding.
The tongues of violins,
(I think O tongues ye tell this heart, that cannot tell itself,
This brooding yearning30 heart, that cannot tell itself.)
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Ah from a little child,
Thou knowest soul how to me all sounds became music,
My mother's voice in lullaby or hymn22,
(The voice, O tender voices, memory's loving voices,
Last miracle of all, O dearest mother's, sister's, voices;)
The rain, the growing corn, the breeze among the long-leav'd corn,
The measur'd sea-surf beating on the sand,
The twittering bird, the hawk's sharp scream,
The wild-fowl's notes at night as flying low migrating north or south,
The psalm31 in the country church or mid5 the clustering trees, the
open air camp-meeting,
The fiddler in the tavern32, the glee, the long-strung sailor-song,
The lowing cattle, bleating33 sheep, the crowing cock at dawn.
All songs of current lands come sounding round me,
The German airs of friendship, wine and love,
Irish ballads34, merry jigs35 and dances, English warbles,
Chansons of France, Scotch36 tunes37, and o'er the rest,
Italia's peerless compositions.
Across the stage with pallor on her face, yet lurid38 passion,
Stalks Norma brandishing39 the dagger40 in her hand.
I see poor crazed Lucia's eyes' unnatural41 gleam,
Her hair down her back falls loose and dishevel'd.
I see where Ernani walking the bridal garden,
Amid the scent42 of night-roses, radiant, holding his bride by the hand,
Hears the infernal call, the death-pledge of the horn.
To crossing swords and gray hairs bared to heaven,
The clear electric base and baritone of the world,
The trombone duo, Libertad forever!
From Spanish chestnut43 trees' dense44 shade,
By old and heavy convent walls a wailing45 song,
Song of lost love, the torch of youth and life quench'd in despair,
Song of the dying swan, Fernando's heart is breaking.
Awaking from her woes46 at last retriev'd Amina sings,
Copious47 as stars and glad as morning light the torrents48 of her joy.
(The teeming49 lady comes,
The lustrious orb50, Venus contralto, the blooming mother,
Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.)
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I hear those odes, symphonies, operas,
I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people,
I hear Meyerbeer's Huguenots, the Prophet, or Robert,
Gounod's Faust, or Mozart's Don Juan.
I hear the dance-music of all nations,
The waltz, some delicious measure, lapsing51, bathing me in bliss52,
The bolero to tinkling53 guitars and clattering54 castanets.
I see religious dances old and new,
I hear the sound of the Hebrew lyre,
I see the crusaders marching bearing the cross on high, to the
martial55 clang of cymbals56,
I hear dervishes monotonously57 chanting, interspers'd with frantic58
shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca,
I see the rapt religious dances of the Persians and the Arabs,
Again, at Eleusis, home of Ceres, I see the modern Greeks dancing,
I hear them clapping their hands as they bend their bodies,
I hear the metrical shuffling59 of their feet.
I see again the wild old Corybantian dance, the performers wounding
each other,
I see the Roman youth to the shrill60 sound of flageolets throwing and
catching61 their weapons,
As they fall on their knees and rise again.
I hear from the Mussulman mosque62 the muezzin calling,
I see the worshippers within, nor form nor sermon, argument nor word,
But silent, strange, devout63, rais'd, glowing heads, ecstatic faces.
I hear the Egyptian harp9 of many strings64,
The primitive65 chants of the Nile boatmen,
The sacred imperial hymns of China,
To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricken wood and stone,)
Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting66 twang of the vina,
A band of bayaderes.
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Now Asia, Africa leave me, Europe seizing inflates67 me,
To organs huge and bands I hear as from vast concourses of voices,
Luther's strong hymn Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott,
Rossini's Stabat Mater dolorosa,
Or floating in some high cathedral dim with gorgeous color'd windows,
The passionate Agnus Dei or Gloria in Excelsis.
Composers! mighty maestros!
And you, sweet singers of old lands, soprani, tenori, bassi!
To you a new bard68 caroling in the West,
Obeisant69 sends his love.
(Such led to thee O soul,
All senses, shows and objects, lead to thee,
But now it seems to me sound leads o'er all the rest.)
I hear the annual singing of the children in St. Paul's cathedral,
Or, under the high roof of some colossal70 hall, the symphonies,
oratorios71 of Beethoven, Handel, or Haydn,
The Creation in billows of godhood laves me.
Give me to hold all sounds, (I madly struggling cry,)
Fill me with all the voices of the universe,
Endow me with their throbbings, Nature's also,
The tempests, waters, winds, operas and chants, marches and dances,
Utter, pour in, for I would take them all!
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Then I woke softly,
And pausing, questioning awhile the music of my dream,
And questioning all those reminiscences, the tempest in its fury,
And all the songs of sopranos and tenors72,
And those rapt oriental dances of religious fervor73,
And the sweet varied74 instruments, and the diapason of organs,
And all the artless plaints of love and grief and death,
I said to my silent curious soul out of the bed of the slumber-chamber,
Come, for I have found the clew I sought so long,
Let us go forth refresh'd amid the day,
Cheerfully tallying75 life, walking the world, the real,
Nourish'd henceforth by our celestial76 dream.
And I said, moreover,
Haply what thou hast heard O soul was not the sound of winds,
Nor dream of raging storm, nor sea-hawk's flapping wings nor harsh scream,
Nor vocalism of sun-bright Italy,
Nor German organ majestic77, nor vast concourse of voices, nor layers
of harmonies,
Nor strophes of husbands and wives, nor sound of marching soldiers,
Nor flutes, nor harps, nor the bugle-calls of camps,
But to a new rhythmus fitted for thee,
Poems bridging the way from Life to Death, vaguely78 wafted79 in night
air, uncaught, unwritten,
Which let us go forth in the bold day and write.
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