Scan 77
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
11 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1Dream Music
3our violin, well governed, well learned, sprang into life among those everlasting hills and infinite mysteries, gaining strange wisdom from priest and peasant, tuning its heart to a song beyond our understanding, filling its answering strings with dream music not entirely of this world.
5For after all it is to India that we owe the greatest debt, and it is India who of them all has dreamed most greatly, most marvellously through the centuries. There is an old poem called "The Hindoo." It ends in this fashion:
7"His lute and vina are beloved things,
8He learns their souls, and counts each echo dear,
9And he has taught his heart the way to hear
10The ancient dream that lingers in the strings."
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