undersong
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The undersong of Dot’s unconscious gets lost in all the quotidian bustle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
The undersong here is underplumage: those jewel-like greens and purples and reds you can spot beneath the oil-slick surface of certain black-feathered birds.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
I've made her a bed—'tis here, 'tis there, And she shall wake, be it soon or long, Where grass is green and wild birds sing And the wind makes undersong.
From Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by Frank Richard Stockton
And yet to you and not to me belong Those finer instincts that, like second sight And hearing, catch creation's undersong, And see by inner light.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
"Murmurs sweet undersong 'mid jasmine bowers" is a sweet line and so are the 3 next.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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