StoryTitle("caps", "The Bugle Song") ?>
Bugle Song" (by Alfred Tennyson, 1809-90), says Heydrick, "has for its
central theme the undying power of human love. The music is notable for
sweetness and delicacy."
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The splendour falls on castle walls", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And snowy summits old in story:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The long light shakes across the lakes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the wild cataract leaps in glory.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And thinner, clearer, farther going!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O sweet and far from cliff and scar", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O love, they die in yon rich sky,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They faint on hill or field or river:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our echoes roll from soul to soul,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And grow forever and forever.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Alfred Tennyson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>