The Descent from the Scottish Highlands and Luzern
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The melodies that go on long and fine,
And long and long, without a gap or pause
Streamed out from Mendelssohn. An endless line
Of notes uninterrupted made new laws
Of music, or as endless as the spell
Of beauty in itself. When Wagner took
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This up, he amplified and made it swell
With Alpine melodrama. Music shook
As it had never throbbed and echoed. This
Reverberation was because ideal
Melodic loveliness had never felt the kiss
Of perfect strength before. Notes knew the peal
Of immortality at last. But then
The world forgot this oracled amen.
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