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IN RECOMPENSE by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON

First Line: I CRAVE A SENTIENT SOUL-IN RECOMPENSE
Last Line: THE VOICE OF GOD THROUGHOUT HIS UNIVERSE.
Subject(s): MELODIES; MUSIC & MUSICIANS;
I crave a sentient soul—in recompense
For weary, laden hands and crowded days—
Alive to music of the world at work,
The hum of streets, the song of glad highways.

To whispering of ships across the sea,
Fantasias on the softly throbbing air;
To nocturnes of the forest in the dusk—
The melody and rhythm everywhere;

Roulades of mystic carriers of thought,
To cadences all childrens' feet rehearse;
Te Deum of the mountains, march of plains—
The voice of God throughout his universe.



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