FRAGMENT.

FRAGMENT.

But who is He shall put his daring handTo Love’s mysterious Harp, and with rude touchDiscordant violate the silver stringWhose note is sweeter than the balmy SouthImpregn’d with soft Æolian harmony!The Song of Love is like an Angel’s voiceAttuned to heavenly music; and once heardOn this Terrestrial; when the Bard of ThraceBewail’d his lost Euridice, it drewThe wild Inhabitants to hear his Lyre;—Yea savage Beasts and Things inanimateTo listen to his dulcet melody:—Such power is in the magic sounds of Love.

But who is He shall put his daring handTo Love’s mysterious Harp, and with rude touchDiscordant violate the silver stringWhose note is sweeter than the balmy SouthImpregn’d with soft Æolian harmony!The Song of Love is like an Angel’s voiceAttuned to heavenly music; and once heardOn this Terrestrial; when the Bard of ThraceBewail’d his lost Euridice, it drewThe wild Inhabitants to hear his Lyre;—Yea savage Beasts and Things inanimateTo listen to his dulcet melody:—Such power is in the magic sounds of Love.

But who is He shall put his daring handTo Love’s mysterious Harp, and with rude touchDiscordant violate the silver stringWhose note is sweeter than the balmy SouthImpregn’d with soft Æolian harmony!The Song of Love is like an Angel’s voiceAttuned to heavenly music; and once heardOn this Terrestrial; when the Bard of ThraceBewail’d his lost Euridice, it drewThe wild Inhabitants to hear his Lyre;—Yea savage Beasts and Things inanimateTo listen to his dulcet melody:—Such power is in the magic sounds of Love.

But who is He shall put his daring hand

To Love’s mysterious Harp, and with rude touch

Discordant violate the silver string

Whose note is sweeter than the balmy South

Impregn’d with soft Æolian harmony!

The Song of Love is like an Angel’s voice

Attuned to heavenly music; and once heard

On this Terrestrial; when the Bard of Thrace

Bewail’d his lost Euridice, it drew

The wild Inhabitants to hear his Lyre;—

Yea savage Beasts and Things inanimate

To listen to his dulcet melody:—

Such power is in the magic sounds of Love.


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