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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (24386)	5/13/1999 12:53:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

And steadfast as Keats' Eremite- A zillion years ago, I spent part of my teen summers at the Massanetta Music Camp, and these are some of the sweetest memories I have. Our rehearsals were held in an open air pavillion. Massanetta Springs is in the Shenandoah Valley and is surrounded by the Blue Ridge. It's the Virginia you and I love. The nights were cool and clear and sometimes, with the dark pressing in, we could hear the overtones building and resonating over our own voices like some magical faint siren call. One year we sang an arrangement of Frost's "Take Something Like a Star". It was a rich piece, and I can still remember the night we sang it so perfectly- the last song of the evening - and as the harmonies faded away, the director put his fingers to his lips and we silently walked into the night- a mountain night with all those stars over us- with the words still on our tongues and in our minds- And steadfast as Keats' Eremite, Not even stooping from its sphere, It asks a little of us here. It asks of us a certain height, So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid. That was 35 years ago and I still get a thrill remembering it.