Are you bowed down in heart? <br />Do you but hear the clashing discords and the din of life? <br />Then come away, come to the peaceful wood, <br />Here bathe your soul in silence. Listen! Now, <br />From out the palpitating solitude <br />Do you not catch, yet faint, elusive strains? <br />They are above, around, within you, everywhere. <br />Silently listen! Clear, and still more clear, they come. <br />They bubble up in rippling notes, and swell in singing tones. <br />Not let your soul run the whole gamut of the wondrous scale <br />Until, responsive to the tonic chord, <br />It touches the diapason of God's grand cathedral organ, <br />Filling earth for you with heavenly peace <br />And holy harmonies.<br /><br />James Weldon Johnson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/deep-in-the-quiet-wood/
