Undersong

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Undersong \Un"der*song`\, n.
     1. The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain. --Dryden.
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     2. Accompanying strain; subordinate and underlying meaning;
        accompaniment; undertone.


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              In the very [poetry] there often an undersong of
              sense which none beside the poetic mind . . . can
              comprehend.                           --Landor.
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