Stories of Symphonic Music / A Guide to the Meaning of Important Symphonies, Overtures, and Tone-poems from Beethoven to the Present Day

by Lawrence Gilman

Now low, subdued—now in the distance lost."

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[II. "LOVE">[

"Blow again, trumpeter! and for thy theme

Take now the enclosing theme of all—the solvent and the setting;

Love, that is pulse of all—the sustenance and the pang;"

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[III. "WAR OR STRUGGLE">[

"Blow again, trumpeter—conjure war's wild alarums.

"Swift to thy spell, a shuddering hum like distant thunder rolls;