tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post7940171096242304770..comments2024-03-27T06:25:29.002-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `When I Hear Music I Fear No Danger'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-45397781745563871902009-11-26T08:26:24.413-06:002009-11-26T08:26:24.413-06:00When reading today's post, I was reminded of t...When reading today's post, I was reminded of the following poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay:<br /><br /><br />"On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven" <br /><br />Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease!<br />Reject me not into the world again.<br />With you alone is excellence and peace,<br />Mankind made plausible, his purpose plain.<br />Enchanted in your air benign and shrewd,<br />With limbs a-sprawl and empty faces pale,<br />The spiteful and the stingy and the rude<br />Sleep like the scullions in the fairy-tale.<br />This moment is the best the world can give:<br />The tranquil blossom on the tortured stem.<br />Reject me not, sweet sounds; oh, let me live,<br />Till Doom espy my towers and scatter them,<br />A city spell-bound under the aging sun.<br />Music my rampart, and my only one.Joe (New York)noreply@blogger.com