Oh, I Have Music

You think me deaf?  I heard a snowflake fall.
I heard a rainbow singing; and the faint,
Blue shadowed melody that twilight plays
On spinet trees and I heard the quaint
Elf music made by moonbeams on still waters,
And heaven’s anthems as the stars appear;
And once I heard a star . . .Oh, I have music
Sweeter than songs that reach the outer ear!

–written in December 1941

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