Ascending Octaves

Well, well it makes me laugh

         The silence speaks in paragraphs

              For the music is but Rest and Sustain

          So we can learn to Pause

    Or perhaps to Sustain

In stupendous animation!


                        (Pause for breath)


Does it come naturally

      To those well informed

            Who make the songs flow

                    Reaching higher and higher

                             Through the cloud's white haze

                                       Until they touch the One above

                             The stars on high and beyond

                         Where only angels tread

                   And God sits enthroned
                
              Receiving all the praise

          From manifold songs

     All with different melodies

Yet He misses not one note of understanding!