 | The Poems of Sir William Watson |  |
THE HARMONISTS
Bach, with his coils on wondrous shuttles woven,Companioned oft my youth; and oft this soul
By Schubert's heartdeep tones was inly cloven;
And with the world itself I now condole,
Hearing Man's masterpiece of Dissonance roll
From the same mighty breast that nursed Beethoven.
1917
| The Poems of Sir William Watson | |