Thursday, October 19, 2023

The Aeolian Harb and the Aeolian Tree-Stump - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

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Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

The Aeolian Harp and the Aeolian Tree-Stump

 

Every tree is an Aeolian harp

Singing the Daily Office of the wind

Not often the night’s Matins and Lauds so much

But with the breezy dawn the service of Prime

 

And I know an Aeolian tree-stump too

Of deeper voices through its mysterious hollows

Wind whispering into the damp, dark earth

Then booming out into the air again

 

Every tree is an Aeolian harp

But a tree-stump can be musical too

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