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  Better – than Music!
For I – who heard it –
I was used – to the Birds –
before ­–
This – was different – ′Twas
Translation –
Of all tunes I knew –
and more –

′Twasn’t contained – like other
stanza –
No one could play it – the
second time –
But the Composer – perfect
Mozart –
Perish with him – that
Keyless Rhyme!

So –  1   Children – + told how Brooks
in Eden –
Bubbled a better – melody –
 ¦
Quaintly infer – Eve’s great
surrender –
Urging the feet – that would –
not – fly –

Children – + matured – are wiser –
mostly –
Eden – a legend – dimly + told –
Eve – and the Anguish –
Grandame′s story –
But – I was telling a
tune – I heard –

Not such a strain – the
Church –  baptizes –
When the last Saint –
goes up the Aisles –
Not such a stanza
splits the silence –
When the Redemption + strikes
her Bells –
 ¦

Let me not + spill – it′s
smallest cadence –
Humming – for promise – when
alone –
Humming – until my faint
Rehearsal –
Drop into tune – around the
Throne –

+ assured that + grown up –
+ learned + crooned + shakes –
loss + waste –