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A MOOD by RICHARD WATSON GILDER

First Line: WORDS PRAISING MUSIC, WHAT ARE THEY BUT LEAVES
Last Line: EVER THE SAME, WITH MESSAGE NEVER THE SAME.
Subject(s): MUSIC & MUSICIANS;

WORDS praising music, what are they but leaves
Whirled round the fountain by the wind that grieves.
Frail human speech falls idly as the snow
On the red lava's flow, --
Still pours the music on, all passion and flame;
As music passes, that which music came, --
Ever the same, with message never the same.



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