Harmonics

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2><SPAN name="HARMONICS" id="HARMONICS"></SPAN>HARMONICS</h2> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">This string upon my harp was best beloved:<br/></span> <span class="i0">I thought I knew its secrets through and through;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Till an old man, whose young eyes lightened blue<br/></span> <span class="i0">'Neath his white hair, bent over me and moved<br/></span> <span class="i0">His fingers up and down, and broke the wire<br/></span> <span class="i0">To such a laddered music, rung on rung,<br/></span> <span class="i0">As from the patriarch's pillow skyward sprung<br/></span> <span class="i0">Crowded with wide-flung wings and feet of fire.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">O vibrant heart! so metely tuned and strung<br/></span> <span class="i0">That any untaught hand can draw from thee<br/></span> <span class="i0">One clear gold note that makes the tired years young&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">What of the time when Love had whispered me<br/></span> <span class="i0">Where slept thy nodes, and my hand pausefully<br/></span> <span class="i0">Gave to the dim harmonics voice and tongue?<br/></span></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />