Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 91-96
"And I myself will teach to him,
I myself, lying so,
The songs I sing here; which his voice
Shall pause in, hush'd and slow,
And find some knowledge at each pause,
Or some new thing to know."
- In this stanza, the damozel imagines herself lying under the tree of life and teaching her beloved the same songs that she sings up in heaven.
- Each time her fella pauses in his singing (which will be "hush'd and slow"), he'll encounter some new knowledge (94).
- Those sound like pretty special songs to us. Usually when we pause, we're just waiting for our brain to catch up to our mouth.