THE PROMISE IN DISTURBANCE

How low when angels fall their black descent,

Our primal thunder tells: known is the pain

Of music, that nigh throning wisdom went,

And one false note cast wailful to the insane.

Now seems the language heard of Love as rain

To make a mire where fruitfulness was meant.

The golden harp gives out a jangled strain,

Too like revolt from heaven's Omnipotent.

But listen in the thought; so may there come

Conception of a newly-added chord,

Commanding space beyond where ear has home.

In labour of the trouble at its fount,

Leads Life to an intelligible Lord

The rebel discords up the sacred mount.