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Bayley, Peter: On Hearing an Eolian Harp - ZaunköniG - 05.07.2007 On Hearing an Eolian Harp Sure 'tis the voice of choired saints that flows Along the billows of the softened breeze. . . And now, in falls and dying symphonies, So sweet it glides, that forth my rapt soul goes To join those hymnings, ta'en from all her woes. Yet once more, and once more, ye minstrelsies Of power, my stormy spirit to appease, With some dissolving dream my thoughts compose. . . Again your strains float, sinking on the wind, Soft, wild, and mournful all; now melt away, Faintly perceived, like some expiring ray Of memory that trembles o'er the mind, Lovely in its departure, still enshrined As the blest relic of a happy day. |