1.
WHEN Beauty’s hand awakes th’ harmonious chord,
And lifts the soul on rapture’s trembling wings,
Each list’ning ear will join with quick accord
To drink enchantment from Eolian strings.
2.
But when the dulcet Voice with magic note
And sweetest cadence circles in the air,
Wing’d with the sound ascends our raptur’d thought
In sweet illusion and in visions fair.
3.
What conscious gladness then inspires the mind,
When sweetest numbers flow from lips we love,
When one vibrating chord with joy refin’d,
Transports the soul to Memory’s fairy grove!
4.
There, where the pictur’d scenes of bliss appear,
Not yet quite faded from the ling’ring view,
Hope, Fancy, Mem’ry, claim one silent tear,
One precious tribute to affection due.
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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