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Balaustion's Adventure · 1871
Who hears music feels his solitude Peopled at once.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Music, in the speaker's view, transforms how solitude feels: someone listening alone is suddenly surrounded by company. Sound seems to fill the empty room with presences, so being alone stops feeling like absence. The lines are tender, treating music as companionship that arrives without anyone actually entering.
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