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The Convergence of the Twain (Thomas Hardy)

from Poetry and Music 4 by Toby Darling

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The Convergence of the Twain
By Thomas Hardy
(Lines on the loss of the "Titanic")
Dm Am Bb C
In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity,
Cm C Bb9
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.

Dm Am Bb C
Steel chambers, late the pyres Of her salamandrine fires,
Dm C Bb C
Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.

Dm C Bb C
Over the mirrors meant To glass the opulent
Dm C Bb9
The sea-worm crawls — grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.

Em Am G B7
Jewels in joy designed To ravish the sensuous mind
Em Bm7 C D
Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.


Dim moon-eyed fishes near Gaze at the gilded gear
And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?" ...

Well: while was fashioning This creature of cleaving wing,
The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything

Prepared a sinister mate For her — so gaily great —
A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate.

And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.

Em Bm Em Bm
Alien they seemed to be; No mortal eye could see
Bb C Dm
The intimate welding of their later history,

Dm Am Bb C
Or sign that they were bent By paths coincident
Cm C Bb9
On being anon twin halves of one august event,

Dm Am Bb C
Till the Spinner of the Years Said "Now!" And each one hears,
Cm C Bb9
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.

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from Poetry and Music 4, released August 1, 2016
Poem by Thomas Hardy
Music by Toby Darling

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