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

Ah! many an hour I sat and read, And God seemed with me all day long; Joy murmured a sweet undersong, I talkt with angels, with them fed.

From International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 by Various

The sound of the streams, as Ruskin has pointed out, is sweet and rhythmic to an extraordinary degree, combining with the sough of the winds to form an undersong of Nature's own melody.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

For earth yet keeps her undersong Of comfort and of ultimate peace, That whoso seeks shall never cease To hear at dawn or noon or night.

From Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir