Deeper than ocean's thunder unsubdued, <br />Titanic voices of the warfare strong <br />Of man on fellow-man about me throng <br />In my captivity. Yet how elude <br />The tumult of the torrents that exclude <br />The voices that to loneliness belong? <br />How may I find thy silences, O Song? <br />Thine angels whisper but in solitude. <br /> <br />I am set far from that. Fast as a flow'r <br />In some sad city-garden, for release <br />I search my grim horizon without cease, <br />Craving, if only for a little hour, <br />The stillness and the shadow of a bow'r <br />Where the blue mountains hold a realm of peace.<br /><br />George Sterling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-city-and-the-silence/
