In the hush of the Valley of Silence,
I dream all the songs that I sing;
And the music floats down the dim valley
Till each finds a word for a wing,
That to men, like the doves of the deluge
The message of peace they may bring.
But far out on the deep there are billows
That never shall break on the beach;
And I have heard songs in the silence
That never shall float into speech;