Optical Sound

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    It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.
    —For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    There is a sound of music echoing
    Through the open door
    And in the field there is
    Another sound tinkling in the cotton:
    Chains of bondmen dragging on the ground.
    Arna Bontemps (1902–1973)