1. ۱THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning—yet long untaught I did not hear;
2. ۲But now the chorus I hear, and am elated;
3. ۳A tenor, strong, ascending, with power and health, with glad notes of day-break I hear,
4. ۴A soprano, at intervals, sailing buoyantly over the tops of immense waves,
5. ۵A transparent bass, shuddering lusciously under and through the universe,
6. ۶The triumphant tutti—the funeral wailings, with sweet flutes and violins—all
7. ۷ these I
8. ۸ fill myself with;
9. ۹I hear not the volumes of sound merely—I am moved by the exquisite meanings,
10. ۱۰I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving, contending with fiery
11. ۱۱ vehemence
12. ۱۲ to excel each other in emotion;
13. ۱۳I do not think the performers know themselves—but now I think I begin to know them.