Page:Poetry, a magazine of verse, Volume 7 (October 1915-March 1916).djvu/109

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Beethoven

BEETHOVEN

Behold the tormented and the fallen angel
Wandering disconsolate the world along,
That seeks to atone with inconsolable anguish
For some old grievance, some remembered wrong;
To storm heaven's iron gates with angry longing,
And beat back homeward in a shower of song!

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