Musical References from "Stray Birds"
3.
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.
It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
19.
My wishes are fools, they shout across thy songs, my Master.
43.
The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy,
the bird in the air is singing,
But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth
and the music of the air.
96.
The noise of the moment scoffs at the music of the Eternal.
195.
This world is the world of wild storms kept tame with the music
of beauty.
204.
The song feels the infinite in the air, the picture in the earth,
the poem in the air and the earth;
For its words have meaning that walks and music that soars.
227.
The movement of life has its rest in its own music.
245.
The bird-song is the echo of the morning light back from the earth.
286.
Lead me in the centre of thy silence to fill my heart with songs.
306.
Thou wilt find, Eternal Traveller, marks of thy footsteps across
my songs.
315.
When all the strings of my life will be tuned, my Master, then at
every touch of Thine will come out the music of love.
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