Written For A Musician

By Vachel Lindsay

Hungry for music with a desperate hunger

I prowled abroad, I threaded through the town;

The evening crowd was clamoring and drinking,

Vulgar and pitiful—my heart bowed down—

Till I remembered duller hours made noble

By strangers clad in some suprising grace.

Wait, wait my soul, your music comes ere midnight

Appearing in some unexpected place

With quivering lips, and gleaming, moonlit face.