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Saturday, October 31, 2020

Ghost Music by Robert Graves


We live in a spooky house that has its own sort of ghost music.  I hope you find a way to enjoy the season, despite the pandemic.  Be Safe.

Gloomy and bare the organ-loft,
Bent-backed and blind the organist.
From rafters looming shadowy,
From the pipes’ tuneful company,
Drifted together drowsily,
Innumerable, formless, dim,
The ghosts of long-dead melodies,
Of anthems, stately, thunderous,
Of Kyries shrill and tremulous:
In melancholy drowsy-sweet
They huddled there in harmony.
Like bats at noontide rafter-hung.

 

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