run-and-fall

Updated: June 22, 2025

It was a clear, sharp, lilted run-and-fall of notes, not a tune in any sense of the word, and yet a melody, a bright, quick sound of pure animation, a bright, quick, animate noise, running and pausing. It was like a bird's singing, in that it had no human emotion or passion or intention or meaning a ripple and poise of animate sound.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence - Aaron's Rod