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What Music Is That Which Soothes Eager Soul

What Music Is That Which Soothes Eager Soul

What music is that cheers the eager heart
Whereas I can find none on any star chart
Nor shadow of which behind resting sun
Waits night and its roaring of battle guns
And prayers uttered by dying men
Pales chasm between sainthood and ones sin
Hold the thought, that human life is much more
Than wasting years and a beggar's last score.

What music is that which soothes eager soul
Where sinners in hellish fires must pay toll
Whilst in anguish they beg for treasures lost
Thereby forgetting sinners greatest costs.

What music can a sainthood ever bring.
Or wife be without lover's wedding ring.

Robert J. Lindley, Sonnet 
March 24th 1978

Copyright © Robert Lindley

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