Overtones
To one whose listening spirit is attune
With beauty there are overtones of meaning:
Glory and strength and joy in the unhewn
Unconquerable hills, and in a leaning
Storm-ravaged pine above the summer sea
Norn-melodies of ancient hope and yearning,
Patience and fortitude and sanctity;—
And in a rose-hedge love forever burning!
To him when he beholds war's desecration,
Or when in fear or grief he stands aware
Of man's fell infamy and degradation,—
Be then, O pine-crowned hills and hedge-rows fair
Where Beauty dwells a chastening consolation,
And still the anguish of a vast despair!
With beauty there are overtones of meaning:
Glory and strength and joy in the unhewn
Unconquerable hills, and in a leaning
Storm-ravaged pine above the summer sea
Norn-melodies of ancient hope and yearning,
Patience and fortitude and sanctity;—
And in a rose-hedge love forever burning!
To him when he beholds war's desecration,
Or when in fear or grief he stands aware
Of man's fell infamy and degradation,—
Be then, O pine-crowned hills and hedge-rows fair
Where Beauty dwells a chastening consolation,
And still the anguish of a vast despair!
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