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Updated: May 11, 2025
There are many minds which will echo the exclamation with which the poet dismisses his visitors and their gossip: Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long barren silence, square with my desire; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong.
It was about Philip's father, too; so Philip stretched his legs from the sofa towards the hearth, and listened to the old Auntie's voice over the whirr of her wheel, with another voice a younger voice, an unheard voice breaking: in at the back of his ears when the wheel stopped, and a sweet undersong inside of him always, saying, "Be sensible; there is no disloyalty; Pete is dead. Poor Pete!
And he had known and he had known that, given opportunity, he could win her for his own. Like a throbbing undersong the fiendish accompaniment to the devils' chorus the gossip of the station as detailed by Tessa ran with glib mockery through her brain. Ah, they only suspected. But she knew she knew! The door of that secret chamber had opened wide to her at last, and perforce she had entered in.
Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth.
Stay here, if you will, with the horses while I follow him home." And in a minute he was out of sight. I waited patiently enough for what seemed a long time, trying to catch the undersong that thrilled through the forest, "the horns of elf-land faintly blowing," the hum such as bees at home make when late May sees the chestnut trees in flower.
"His song was all a lamentable lay, Of great unkindness and of usage hard, Of Cynthia, the Lady of the Sea, Which from her presence faultless him debarred. And ever and anon with singults* rife, He cried out, to make his undersong, 'Ah! my love's Queen, and goddess of my life, Who shall me pity when thou doest me wrong?" *Sobs. "Colin Clout's come home again."
The wake of the tender widened out, lapped against the side of the Oriana and rippled away; it was no longer possible to distinguish anything but a blurred mass of pinkish faces and dark clothes, splashed by a crest of white handkerchiefs. Good-byes rang out to the undersong of "We want more Beer." Marcella turned away and looked right into the face of Louis Farne.
He came back to his split-bottomed chair on the porch, the tobacco box for the toll, the tin box with Allan's letters, and the view across the china asters of the road. The afternoon was past its height, but bright yet, with the undersong of the wind and of Thunder Run.
DEAR FRIEND, I was glad to hear from you again, for I find my thoughts often dwelling on you. The sympathy of spirits is the heart's undersong, and its warblings are heard in the quiet hours of solitude, as if they were from the soft voices of celestial choirs. Music reaches us from the distance, amid the discordant noises of the External.
The devils' tattoo on the roof had sunk to a mere undersong, a fitting accompaniment as it were to the electricity in the room. Bernard spoke at length, slowly, deliberately, but not unkindly. "Why should you take the trouble to fence with me?" he said. "Is it worth it, do you think?" Everard's face was set and grey like a stone mask.
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