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noun

Undersong n.

The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain.

Accompanying strain; subordinate and underlying meaning; accompaniment; undertone. "In the very (poetry) there often an undersong of sense which none beside the poetic mind... can comprehend."

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Etymology of 'Undersong'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Undersong" Quotes from Famous Books

... contrary. It will render you a very singular service,—let your classical and logical studies be as severe as they will; (and they cannot well be too severe, too engrossing,—for this is your golden opportunity which never will, never can, come back again!) The undersong of "Siloa's brook that flows, fast by the oracle of GOD," will many a time soothe and refresh your else dry and weary spirit. What was begun as a task will soon come to be regarded as a privilege. That jealously-guarded half-hour will be found to be the one green spot in the whole day,—like ...

— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon

... than such discourse doth silence long, Long barren silence, square with my desire; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. ...

— Wordsworth • F. W. H. Myers

... did not know, The hundreds who had read his sturdy verse And revelled over ringing major notes, The mournful meaning of the undersong Which runs through all he wrote, and often takes The deep autumnal, half-prophetic tone Of forest winds in March; nor did they think That on that healthy-hearted man there lay The wild specific curse which seems to cling Forever to the Poet's ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

... fire, Mingling with tones of fear and ire, Soft Mercy's undersong - 'Tis Abraham's God who speaks so loud, His people's cries have pierced the cloud, He ...

— The Christian Year • Rev. John Keble