Florence Earle Coates,
Lyrics of Life — The Hermit
(1909)
“ Each knows the soul of Music—full without him— Could bear no more, and rivalry were vain. So, Daphnis singing in the tamarisk shade, All things grew silent, of a sound afraid. The aspens by the lake have ceased to shiver, As if the very zephyrs held their breath: Hearken how, wave on wave, with notes that quiver, It rises now—that song of life and death!— "O holy! holy!" Was it Heaven that called My spirit, by love's ecstasy enthralled? ”
