listening to the sweet call of a flute

Music is so ancient.

It's so odd to think that
The sweet lilting of the flute,
Played through my speakers, read from a CD-
Could be so close to the sound of reed pipes!-
Played by children dancing in the forest.

For they may sound different,
But really, they aren't so strange.

It's the same notes, same melody,
Thousands of years apart.

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