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Romance of Song; Or, the Muse in Many Moods [verse].
Romance of Song Or the Muse in Many Moods - verse Author:William Reid General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Could man commute his idle hours To meditate 'midst scenes like these, Philosophy might nerve his powers To conquer life's complex disease, And lift his soul with soaring ease To regions of the true sublime -- Health wooing Vigour in the breeze, And Science brightening all he sees, Exulting 'midst the spoils of Time ! STREET MUSIC. List ! list! it is the organ's soothing swell That breaks the stillness of the quiet street, Like woodland strains, familiar to my ear; It stirs the reminiscences of youth -- My youth, alas ! oh, bright, impulsive youth ! That followed pleasure up the sunny hill To breathe the vital raptures of delight; Lost in the sweet delirium of love -- In its luxuriant indulgence lost; The thought of one will burn my memory out. Oh, change the note ere I am fondly mad! And art thou gone, thou poor itinerant? To wake the throbbing of some other heart That broods, perchance, like mine in lonely grief, And starts to hear the echo of a joy Which thrilled the bosom once with ecstacy, When love and hope were rapt with music's charm Ere life was blighted by malignant fate. I hear it still -- that deathless strain again, -- Now lessening on my ear and faintly heard, Like Melancholy's sad, expressive sigh, That seems to linger when all else is dead, E'en as I now sit here in sorrow's shade, Eecalling bliss which never more returns. TO A BROTHER POET UNDER RECENT AFFLICTION. (MR. P. MACARTHUR.) Ah, Sir ! can sympathy restore the mind To that serenity it learned to prize Ere Time and Fate in cruel league combined To rob thy heart of life's tenacio...« less