24 The Future Poetry
orchestral movement is the soul suddenly and potently coming
forward to get its own work done by its own higher and un-
analysable methods. The result is something as near to wordless
music as word-music can get, and with the same power of soul-
life, of soul-emotion, of profound supra-intellectual significance.
In these higher harmonies and melodies the metrical rhythm is
taken up by the spiritual; it is filled with or sometimes it seems
rolled away and lost in a music that has really another unseizable
and spiritual secret of movement.
This is the intensity of poetic movement out of which the
greatest possibility of poetic expression arises. It is where the
metrical movement remains as a base, but either enshrines and
contains or is itself contained and floats in an element of greater
music which exceeds it and yet brings out all its possibilities,
that the music fit for the Mantra makes itself audible. It is the
triumph of the embodied spirit over the difficulties and limita-
tions of the physical instrument. And the listener seems to be that
other vaster and yet identical eternal spirit whom the Upanishad
speaks of as the ear of the ear, he who listens to all hearings;
“behind the instabilities of word and speech” it is the profound
inevitable harmonies of his own thought and vision for which
he is listening.