'A Song for Occupations'

All music is what awakes from you when you

are reminded by the instruments,

It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the

oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score

of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza,

nor that of the men's chorus,

nor that of the women's chorus,

It is nearer and farther than they.

~ Walt Whitman ~