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Seven Poems on the Power of Music
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Seven Poems on the Power of Music

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May 21, 2022
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Listening

Amy Lowell

’T is you that are the music, not your song.

The song is but a door which, opening wide,

Lets forth the pent-up melody inside,

Your spirit’s harmony, which clear and strong

Sing but of you. Throughout your whole life long

Your songs, your thoughts, your doings, each divide

This perfect beauty; waves within a tide,

Or single notes amid a glor…

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