Song-waves

As the full moon rises from a dusky waste of water, two lovers speak of God, destiny, and the sea—and dedicate a song to what binds them. What can a poem carry when life itself ebbs and flows?

Published in Toronto in 1900, Theodore H. Rand’s Song-waves begins with a tender dedication to Emeline, then turns outward to the changing world: a violet sleeping through winter, a bird weaving its nest, waves battering the shore. These lyrics find the soul’s deepest questions in ordinary wonders, where beauty and suffering, change and endurance, seem to answer one another. Rand listens for the divine within the seasons and the heart, even when life’s currents bring both rich freight and debris. Beneath every shifting wave, what enduring music will he hear?

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