Mellotron (1963)

Epigrammata LXXI

A string is quite fine / A magnetic orchestra? / From another world.

The dream is still somewhere alive --
The perfect pull, the springs survive
A whole unknown magnetic tape
From which a mystery might escape;
So hold the key to hear the proof
Unchanged, unfading from your youth
A massive thing -- miraculous?
Such gravity; and tenebrous 
The strings intone; come through to us!