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I hear the annual singing of the children in St. Paul's Cathedral;Or, under the high roof of some colossal hall, the symphonies, oratorios of Beethoven, Handel, or Haydn;
The Creation, in billows of godhood laves me.
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Give me to hold all sounds, (I, madly struggling, cry,)Fill me with all the voices of the universe,
Endow me with their throbbings—Nature's also,
The tempests, waters, winds—operas and chants—marches and dances,
Utter—pour in—for I would take them all.
| Leaves of grass (1872) | |