Versos English Edwin Arlington Robinson Nor jewelled phrase nor mere mellifluous rhyme

English poem

Nor jewelled phrase nor mere mellifluous rhyme

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Listen in the reader

Reverberates aright, or ever shall, One cadence of that infinite plain-song Which is itself all music. Stronger notes Than any that have ever touched the world Must ring to tell it -- ring like hammer-blows, Right-echoed of a chime primordial, On anvils, in the gleaming of God's forge.