………..Religion in its Place
“Music continuing the beauty of poetry without its idea” ~ Maurice Rollinat
You know how music pieces for a choir
Or smaller sets of human voice will end
With instrumental music, with no fire
Of words aflame at last, without the blend
Of poetry and melody? The notes
Go on alone without the singing. Why?
Because the music’s writer then devotes
Himself to music, declines to comply
Completely with the tacit teaching’s gleam
That syllables and meaning are the point.
He knows that only music is supreme,
That dogma is not needed to anoint.
..The voices, texts and doctrines fall away
….And we are left in music’s sacred sway.
~ Phillip Whidden