After A Concert

Reeling from the hall
I am the worse for music.
Never a note
Of all that knitted harmony
Can I recall.

Yet two days later
Into my waking mind
There springs,
Intact, immediate, and unasked,
A passage from the strings.

Why has it lain
These six and thirty hours,
Tunnelling, mole–like
In the warrens
Of the brain?


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