I LOVE THE DIN OF BEATING DRUMS

By Joseph Campbell

I love the din of beating drums,

The bellowing pipe, the shrieking fife:

The discord and the dissonance is my blood, my breath, my life!

The discord and the dissonance is my life!

Away with flutes and dancing lutes —

Such music likes but lovers’ ears:

Give me the beating battledrum,

The gunpeal and the cheers!

The bellowing pipe and battledrum,

The gunpeal and the cheers!