Ludwig van Beethoven’s Return to Vienna <br /><br />Three miles from my adopted city <br />lies a village where I came to peace. <br />The world there was a calm place, <br />even the great Danube no more <br />than a pale ribbon tossed onto the landscape <br />by a girl’s careless hand. Into this stillness <br />..... <br /><br />I smile and bow, and the world is loud. <br />And though I dare not lean in to shout <br />Can’t you see that I’m deaf?— <br />I also cannot stop listening. <br /><br />..
