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Grandma Moses - Better than music! For I who heard it I was used to the birds before
Identifier
024302
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Emily Dickinson – the Poems of Emily Dickinson
Better than music! For I who heard it
I was used to the birds before
This was different – ‘twas translation
Of all tunes I knew and more
‘Twasn’t contained like other stanza
No one could play it the second time
But the composer – perfect Mozart
Perish with him that keyless rhyme
……..
Children matured are wiser mostly
Eden a legend dimly told
Eve and the anguish Grandame’s story
But I was telling a tune – I heard
Not such a strain the church baptise
When the last saint goes up the aisles
Not such a stanza splits the silence
When the redemption strikes her bells
Let me not spill its smallest cadence
Humming for promise when alone
Humming until my faint rehearsal
Drop into tune around the throne