lirik lagu ghizela rowe - the silent muse by alfred austin
“why have you silent been so long?”
in tones of mild rebuke you ask
know you not, kindly friend, that song
is the “gay science,” not a task?
it is but when it pleaseth god
the blackth~rn blows, the acorns fall;
the muse ignores a mortal’s nod
and will not come to beck and call
if i, to catch the ear of men
should go on singing day by day
what other, better, were i then
than screeching chough or scolding jay?
but save the unseen source be stirred
the happy numbers will not flow:
then one is like a songless bird
that crouches in the drifted snow
say, did you еver sit and dream
when summеr clouds are white and still
beside a slow unsounding stream
that winds below some rustic mill?
the languid current scarcely moves;
at times you almost doubt it flows;
loitering in shallow sandy grooves
it makes no music as it goes
the sluice is down, the mill~race still
nor in mid~stream nor water’s edge
comes faintest ripple, tiniest rill
to stir the flag, or sway the sedge
beside the dozing stream you doze
for nothing wakes in air or sky:
it feels as if time’s eyelids close
and ’tis the same to live or die;
to be a passive part of all
that rounds heaven’s universal plan
of things that soar, of things that crawl
of mindless matter, as of man
when slowly through the noonday sleep
a phantom something seems to stir
like waves of dewy light that creep
along gray chords of gossamer
at first it is nor sight nor sound
but feeling only, inward sense
of motion slowly rising round
you know not where, you know not whence
then, noiseless still, but plain to see
the languid waters wake and wind;
the wave before now fears to be
o’ertaken by the wave behind
the race, long pent, from out the mill
comes rushing, rippling, gleam on gleam;
the runnels rise, the shallows fill
and deep and happy flows the stream
the lazy sedges sway and swerve
the reedmace rocks its heavy head;
past many a bend, and bay, and curve
the river revels through its bed
and as it twists, and curls, and sweels
from out its leaping heart there come
sounds sweet as far~off village bells
or swarming bee~hive’s honeyed hum
through quaking grass and waving weed
rises and falls the river~theme;
vibrating rush and trembling reed
are but the harpstrings of the stream
once more the gold~ribbed gravel trills
with quavering trebles clear and cool
blent with the deeper note that fills
the plunging weir and swirling pool
bed, bank and channel, chant and chime
and fall and freshet, as they run
though ignorant of tune and time
sing in melodious unison
and so, if i be shaped to sing
what kindly hearts are pleased to hear
and blissful were did nature bring
a rush of music all the year;
seasons there are it doth not flow
when fancy’s freshets will not come
the springs of song seem shrunk and low
and all my being dry and dumb
when suddenly from far~off source
unseen, unsounding, deep, immense
something, with swift resistless force
flushes the heart and floods the sense;
and as though heaven and earth did drain
into that deep mysterious spring
brims all the windings of the brain;
then like replenished stream i sing
the will can not the stream control
its currents are divinely sent
and thought and feeling, mind and soul
are rapt in rhythmic ravishment
and on they flow, when once they start
to some ordained but unguessed goal
through all the channels of the heart
and all the reaches of the soul
then come the wingëd words that skim
the surface of earth’s discontent
to soar up to the ether dim
faint heard from far~off firmament
but, till the music stirs and swells
within my breast, forbearing be;
nor lightly waken slumbering bells
above a silent sanctuary!
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