John T. Baker, Beethoven In Reverse</head><body><center><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.com/p1.gif border=0 alt=Saviodsilva></center><hr color=3C00FF size=4><br><font size=4 face=arial><b><a href=41.htm>John T. Baker</a></b></font><br><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.net/poem/a/1.JPG border=0 alt=Poem></center><br><font size=3 face=arial><b>Beethoven In Reverse</a></b></font></center><blockquote><blockquote><p align=left><font face=arial size=2><b>A tourist in a graveyard in<br>Vienna kept on hearing<br>Soft music floating on the air;<br>Intrigued but somehow fearing<br>The sound was naught but fantasy,<br>He set about exploring<br>And found that from an ornate tomb <br>Bold melodies were pouring.<br>Inscriptions on the tomb were worn,<br>With flowers interwoven,<br>But faintly he could read the name<br>Of Ludwig van Beethoven.<br>And then he recognized the tune . . .<br>Ninth Symphony, of course,<br>But strangely it was being played<br>All backward . . . in reverse.<br>The tourist, puzzled, went his way<br>But came back with a friend;<br>By now the Seventh Symphony,<br>Beginning with the end.<br>And then the Sixth, still backward yet,<br>The Fifth and Fourth were next,<br>Both in reverse, also the Third . . .<br>The tourists stood perplexed.<br>They hunted up the keeper of<br>The graveyard and inquired<br>About the backward symphonies,<br>So long ago inspired.<br>The old caretaker gently smiled,<br>You Yanks are just disclosing<br>Your ignorance . . . it's obvious . . .<br>The Maestro's decomposing! </b></font></p></blockquote></blockquote><hr color=0000ca size=3><center><font size=2 face=arial><b><a href=http://www.isavo.net/poem/sk2.htm>This Poem's Index Page 1</a><br><a href=http://www.yensa.net/poem/sk2.htm>This Poem's Index 2</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com/poems.htm>Poetry Website</a><br><a href=http://www.saviodsilva.com>Saviodsilva</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com>Isavo Site</a></b></font></center><SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript SRC=http://www.saviodsilva.org/r/fantasy.js></SCRIPT></body></html>