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After Knowledge
03:42
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You found my soul an untried instrument.
I closed it fast and bade you take the key,
Serene in my unquestioning content
That you alone could wake the harmony.
I gave the key, indifferent though it cost
Familiar lightness of unskillful touch,
The music to the master. If I lost,
He lets the little go who profits much.
Ah, then the keen, reluctant knowledge grew
That thought the chords were helpless at your will
You had nor wit nor power to sound them true:
Discordant they, or else forever still
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The Sea and Its Shores
03:21
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If
04:48
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Said the Old Year to the New: "They will never
welcome you
As they sang me in and rang me in upon my
birthday night—
All above the surging crowd, bells and voices
calling loud—
A throng attunded to laughter and a city all alight.
"Kind had been the years of old, drowsy-lidded,
zoned with gold;
They swept their purples down the bat and sped
the homeward keel;
The years of fruits and peace, smiling days and
rich increase—
Too indolent with wine and sun to grasp the
slaying steel.
"As my brothers so I came, panther-treading,
silken, tame;
The sword was light within my hand, I kept it
sheathed and still—
The jeweled city prayed me and the laughing
voices stayed me—
A little while I pleased them well and gave them
all their will.
"As a panther strikes to slay, so I wrenched my
shuttering prey.
I lit above the panic throng my torches' crimson
flare;
For they made my coming bright and I gave them
light for light—
I filled the night with flaming winfs and Terror's
streaming hair.
"They were stately walls and high—as I felled
them so they lie—
Lie like bodies torn and broken, lie like faces
seamed with scars;
Here where Beauty dwelt and Pride, ere my torches
flamed and died,
The empty arches break the night to frame the
tranquil stars.
"Though of all my brothers scorned, I, betrayer,
go unmourned,
It is I who tower shoulder-high above the level
years;
You who come to build anew, joy will live again
with you,
But mightiest I who walked with Death and taught
the sting of tears!"
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Time Rival Richmond, Illinois
Cross-genre electronic, ambient, electroacoustic & experimental music from the Chicago suburbs
If interested in licensing, please contact me before usage at the email address in my linktree below
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