A Discord
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
1844 to 1881
Track 1
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They brought me wandering by some sudden way
Back to the bloomless city, and athwart
For verily their music and their gladness
And flowers and Chopin-echoes at my heart.
Fresh bloom, and turned their richness into thought,
The doleful streets and many a closed-up court
O how most bitterly upon me broke
Could only seem to me like so much sadness,
That prisoned here and there a spent noon-ray.
It came to pass upon a summer's day,
Beside the inward rhapsody of art
The sight of all the summerless lost folk!—
When from the flowers indeed my soul had caught
That—having made my footsteps free to stray—
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