All music is what awakes within us when we are reminded by the instruments; It is not the violins or the clarinets - It is not the beating of the dru… - Walt Whitman

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All music is what awakes within us
when we are reminded by the instruments;
It is not the violins or the clarinets -
It is not the beating of the drums -
Nor the score of the baritone singing
his sweet romanza; not that of the men's chorus,
Nor that of the women's chorus -
It is nearer and farther than they