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UNDERTONES
Beneath those sweet contented voices
A lovelier discontent,
All unknown to the gay singers
From hidden voices went.
A lovelier discontent,
All unknown to the gay singers
From hidden voices went.
Hardly a breath, almost inaudible,
A tone from distant spheres,
That wrought within me that enchantment
And stayed my listening ears.
A tone from distant spheres,
That wrought within me that enchantment
And stayed my listening ears.
Was it the buried spirit in them beating
Its love-fettered wings,
Prisoner within the heart and weeping
For what immortal things?
Its love-fettered wings,
Prisoner within the heart and weeping
For what immortal things?
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