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By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
My eyes are dim with childish tears,
My heart is idly stirred,
For the same sound is read more
My eyes are dim with childish tears,
My heart is idly stirred,
For the same sound is in my ears
Which in those days I heard.
To all proportioned terms he must dispense
And make the sound a picture of the sense.
To all proportioned terms he must dispense
And make the sound a picture of the sense.
What's the business,
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
The sleepers of the house? Speak, read more
What's the business,
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!
And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
The murmur that springs
From the growing of grass.
The murmur that springs
From the growing of grass.
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.
Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.