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...cause, Ye know why the forms are fair, ye hear how the tale is told, It is all triumphant art, . . , But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will...behind all laws that made them, and lo, they are. . . . God hath a few of us whom He whispers in the ear, The rest may reason and welcome, 'tis we musicians...

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...noticed this element of miracle, which coincides exactly with Browning's view expressed in the lines : " Here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...behind all laws, that made them, and, lo, they are I " Now, these seven verses contain the music of the poem ; in the remaining ones we pass on to Browning's...

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...musician. Observe the careful, scientific phraseology in Abt Vogler, that poem beloved by musicians : "But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will...allowed to man, That out of three sounds, he frame not a fresh sound, but a star. Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again Sliding by semitones,...

...Longfellow, put into the mouth of Michael Angelo, It is the gift of God, and must be used Unto His Glory ; The finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent...I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed lo man. The pictorial element in schoolroom art is another unsolved problem. We are, too many of us,...

...or when Browning, who had so thoroughly assimilated certain salient scientific truths, says : — " And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed...three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star ;" many complain of their similes as far-fetched. And probably no one who had not a permeating knowledge...