Hoofs of Pegasus

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>TO SCRIABINE: L’EXTASE</h2> <div class="poetry-container"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="bigfont">N</span>OT with the drums, the throbbing scarlet drums,</span> <span class="i0">Not with the voice of a silver flute,</span> <span class="i0">Not with the brazen clangour of cymbals,</span> <span class="i0">Nor the trumpets slitting the silence;</span> <span class="i0">Not with the maelstrom of sound</span> <span class="i0">Monstrous, prodigious,</span> <span class="i0">Comes ecstasy.</span> <span class="i0">But with stillness</span> <span class="i0">As when a flame burns unflickering</span> <span class="i0">In far, empty places;</span> <span class="i0">With the quiet of a leaf falling in the forest;</span> <span class="i0">With the hush of the elevation of the Host.</span></div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />