Deep In The Quiet Wood

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2><SPAN name="DEEP_IN_THE_QUIET_WOOD" id="DEEP_IN_THE_QUIET_WOOD"></SPAN>DEEP IN THE QUIET WOOD</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Are you bowed down in heart?<br/></span> <span class="i0">Do you but hear the clashing discords and the din of life?<br/></span> <span class="i0">Then come away, come to the peaceful wood,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Here bathe your soul in silence. Listen! Now,<br/></span> <span class="i0">From out the palpitating solitude<br/></span> <span class="i0">Do you not catch, yet faint, elusive strains?<br/></span> <span class="i0">They are above, around, within you, everywhere.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Silently listen! Clear, and still more clear, they come.<br/></span> <span class="i0">They bubble up in rippling notes, and swell in singing tones.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Now let your soul run the whole gamut of the wondrous scale<br/></span> <span class="i0">Until, responsive to the tonic chord,<br/></span> <span class="i0">It touches the diapason of God's grand cathedral organ,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Filling earth for you with heavenly peace<br/></span> <span class="i0">And holy harmonies.<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />