PEER
How strange now,— I really fancied there came
from the statue a sound. Music, this, of the Past.
I heard the stone — accents now rising, now sinking.—
I will register it, for the learned to ponder.
[Notes in his pocket-book.]
“The statue did sing. I heard the sound plainly,
but didn’t quite follow the text of the song.
The whole thing, of course, was hallucination.—
Nothing else of importance observed to-day.”
[Proceeds on his way.]