Rodin in Rime

COLOPHON AN INCIDENT (RUE DE L'UNIVERSITE, 182) PELL-BOUND we sat: the vivid violin Wailed, pleaded, waited, triumphed. Kingly note By note imperial from its passionate throat Vibrates: the shadows fall like pauses in The workshop of the Master: where there spin Phrases in marble: fancies fall or float, Passions exult, despairs abound, loves dote, Thoughts gallop or abide: and prayer is sin. Spell-bound we sat: one, young, eagerly moves. One sits in thought: one listens, dreams, and loves. One, critical, approves with conscious nod. But I abode without the spell; saw these— Diverse harmonies of identical keys!— And these were thus: but Rodin heard like God. 67