Entune

Let other bards their harps entune for knight and lady gay, Be mine the homely, humble task, to weave the plaintive lay, Which pleads for injured innocence, and breathes the heartfelt prayer For the gentle village maiden, heart-broken with despair.

And he shall come again, Shall judge the All, entune disharmony, Shall wipe all weeping eyes: the Lord of Lords, The Christ, the Lord himself, the mighty Lord!

To celebrate in pean lays Returning months, let not that night Her voice entune.

Especially is this so of the songs of the HAWAIIAN race, upon whom the hand of detiny is enforcing changes which will soon entune their natural musical capabilities to the songs of other lands.

It is the function of the poet to entune his readers with the universe, or, in Whitman's words, to indicate the path between reality and man's soul. But as soon as the poet strives to entune himself with the universe, he finds himself thinking of death.

New Agers who, through meditation, yoga or ritual, are reaching out to cosmic energy in order to 'entune' themselves with the beyond.

And well I ween, ye cannot quite be fled, Ere ye entune his mournful elegy.

A voice that should entune love's melodies With tearful cadence, plaintive as the wind; Pleading enfranchisement from self-wound chain.