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A CONCERT OF GIORGIONE My fingers mirrored in its golden darkness

Ere touch will yield a breath-stirred down of sound;

For those charming repeated fingers seem

The thinner unchafed strings of sympathy

Stretched low in the Abate's viola d'amore.

THE ABATE

I 'll tune it soon in harp-way flat to-night,

To suit your imaged music with faint light.

GIORGIONE

Dear friends, you come as all music begins

In such inexplicable difference

As waking's unannounced moment reveals.

FRA UMILIO

What are these newest ladies on the easel?

GIORGIONE

I never know. I pose models no more,

But find adorable ladies with such fair minds

They may be trusted to express themselves

Graciously, perfectly in perfect gowns;

I ask them to come here quite half in secret

Wearing the gowns they think for quiet joy;

Sometimes I play them music of subtle discords 5