I keep such music in my brain <br />No din this side of death can quell; <br />Glory exulting over pain, <br />And beauty, garlanded in hell. <br /> <br />My dreaming spirit will not heed <br />The roar of guns that would destroy <br />My life that on the gloom can read <br />Proud-surging melodies of joy. <br /> <br />To the world’s end I went, and found <br />Death in his carnival of glare; <br />But in my torment I was crowned, <br />And music dawned above despair.<br /><br />Siegfried Sassoon<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/secret-music/
