Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-10-15
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-Hs voice veiy son, gentle aud low k,ng Lear
Thou OF the son low voice. Airs HemdhS.
Thou sweet nu. ican that around my bod,
boSt nishty aud wind thy little horn,
BY wha, unseen aud secret Influence Ld
Fced'sl thou my with music ill Ills morn?
The wind huip's tones are not more son than thine,
Tho hum Of falling waters not sweet,
1 own, IN ICED, own thy song divine.
"A, Ard when mex, yse',s warm sun@e. nights we moot,
pa,!Snt listener to thy mnstrclsy.
Tbsu tiny minstrel, who bid theo discourse
. Suoh eloquent music vast thy tunefol sire?
Some Odd musician ot did'st take a course
=, vi lessons irom some ma ter of the lyfo'
-" M, M .ne 'wans so swee,ly thy small TRUMP
, Diu Norton form thy notas 20 clear aud full!
Art a ph'enoogist, and is tho bump
W, song developed on thy little sku u
~ Nibo's hast thou been when crowds stood mute,
Drinking tho bird.iik tones OF Cuddy's flute!
Tell mo tho burden OF thy ceasoiess song,
Is IL thy evening hymn Of grateful prayer?
Or lay Of love, thou ppesi through the long
sun night with song dost drive away dull care?
Art thou rtcur gdreoR, "A gay deceiyeT,
A wandering blade, roaming in search Of sweets,
Plcdging thy faith to every f"nd believer,
who my advance with baifway shyness meets!
OI art o tho soner seS, aud sings in glee,
Gin maiden meditation, fancy free 20
Thou little Syron, when the nymphs of yoIc
charmed with their songs till men forse to dine,
Aed starved, though music-fed, upon their shore,
Their voices brsathcd no softer lays than thine,
they sang but to en,ice, and thou dost sing
"a, As u to full our senses to repose,
That thou may'st use unframed thy little sting
- he very moment we begin to dozo
hou worse than Syren, thirsty, fierce blood slipper,
Hnou living Vampire, and thou GallinPper
Nature Is full OF music, swectly sings
ne oaia land thou dost sing most sweetly too,)
inrough the wide circuit OF created things,
, Thou art the living proof tho band sings true.
Mature Is full OF thee; on every shore.
=, Meath tho hot sky of Congo's dusky child,
rom warm poIu to icy Labrador,
yyh ne worlds Tree citizen thou roamcst wild
my voice is heard, from Indus tho Poic'
The incarnation OF Quoon Nab art thou,
1.-The Fairies midwife; thou dost nj Chilly sip,
With amorous proboscis bending low,
,.,, ne honey dew from many Iadys lip
tiho' that they "straght on kissos dream' doubt)
- On smiling faces, aud on eyes that weep,
non lghtest and Oft with "sympathetic shout"
"iicklcst mcn's as they lie aslecp;,
And sometimes dwellest, il rightly seas
'on tho fore-hnger Of an alderman
Ye! thou canst glory in a noble birth.
az rose the soaborn Venus from tho wave,
GO n,dst thou rise to life; the teeminr earth
The living water, and the fresh air gavo
N portion oil their elr ments TO crento
G. Thy little form, though beauty dwells not there.
% loan and gaunt, that economic fate
. Meant thee to feed music or on air.
Our vein pure juices not made for thee,
Ihou h'ins Staging, singing atomy.
The bues of dying sunset arc most f,ir
. ANA twilght's tints Just fading into night.
most dusky soft, and thy son notes arc
-, ny Tar the sweetest when thou tak'st thy fight
me swans last note Is sweetest-so is thino;
,ri are my wind harps tones at di.tauco heard;
LIS sweet in distance al the days decline;
, 10 near the opening song of evenings bril-.
But notes OF harp M bird at distance float
Lcfssweety on the car than thy last note.
The autumn winds are wang; tits thy drge;
. It's ieaSes are soar, prophetic Of thy doom
Soon the cold rain will whe IN thee rs tho su,,o
- Who ms The tost mariner in its W terry tomb
ih'n soar, and sing thy little life away!
49, Albeit thy voice Is somewhat husky now.
Il - well to end in music lifes last day
vi ono so gloofui aud bhe rs thou:
70, thou VIII soon live through its joyous hours
Ana pass away with Autumns dying flowers.