英語翻譯
Music
Never did music more sink into and soothe and fill me --- never so prove its soul-rousing power,its impossibility of statement.Especially in the rendering of one of Beethoven’s master septettes… was I carried away,seeing,absorbing many wonders.Dainty abandon,sometimes as if Nature laughing on a hillside in the sunshine; serious and firm monotonies,as of winds; a horn sounding through the tangle of the forest,and the dying echoes; soothing floating of waves,but presently rising in surges,angrily lashing,muttering,heavy; piercing peals of laughter,for interstices; now and then weird,as Nature herself is in certain moods --- but mainly spontaneous,easy,careless --- often the sentiment of the postures of naked children playing or sleeping.It did me good even to watch the violinists drawing their bows so masterly --- every motion a study.I allowed myself,as I sometimes do.To wander out of myself.The conceit came to me of a copious grove of singing birds,and in their midst a simple harmonic duo,two human souls,steadily asserting their own pensiveness,joyousness.