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In Hospital - XXIII - Music

By William Ernest Henley

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Down the quiet eve,     Thro' my window with the sunset     Pipes to me a distant organ     Foolish ditties;     And, as when you change     Pictures in a magic lantern,     Books, beds, bottles, floor, and ceiling     Fade and vanish,     And I'm well once more . . .     August flares adust and torrid,     But my heart is full of April     Sap and sweetness.     In the quiet eve     I am loitering, longing, dreaming . . .     Dreaming, and a distant organ     Pipes me ditties.     I can see the shop,     I can smell the sprinkled pavement,     Where she serves - her chestnut chignon     Thrills my senses!     O, the sight and scent,     Wistful eve and perfumed pavement!     In the distance pipes an organ . . .     The sensation     Comes to me anew,     And my spirit for a moment     Thro' the music breathes the blessed     Airs of London.

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William Ernest Henley

About William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) was an English poet, critic, and editor best known for his poem "Invictus" ("I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul"). Written while recovering from tuberculosis of the bone, it has become one of the most quoted poems of courage and resilience.

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