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Come to thy lonely bower, thou who dost love The hour of musing. Come, before the brow Of twilight darkens, or the solemn stars Look from their casement, ’mid that hush of soul, Music from viewless harps shall visit thee, Such as thou never heard’st amid the din Of earth’s coarse enginery, by toil and care Urged on without reprieve: Ah! kneel and catch That tuneful cadence. How closely wrapt In quiet slumber are all things around, The vine-leaf and the willow-fringe stir not, Nor doth the chirping of the feeblest bird, Nor even the cold glance of the vestal moon, Disturb thy reverie.
Come to thy lonely bower, thou who dost love The hour of musing. Come, before the brow Of twilight darkens, or the solemn stars Look from their casement, ’mid that hush of soul, Music from viewless harps shall visit thee, Such as thou never heard’st amid the din Of earth’s coarse enginery, by toil and care Urged on without reprieve: Ah! kneel and catch That tuneful cadence. How closely wrapt In quiet slumber are all things around, The vine-leaf and the willow-fringe stir not, Nor doth the chirping of the feeblest bird, Nor even the cold glance of the vestal moon, Disturb thy reverie.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mrs. Sigourney (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 474 · printed citation: Mrs. Sigourney · subject: QUIET
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