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Musick! soft charm of heav'n and earth, Whence didst thou borrow thy auspicious birth? Or art thou of eternal date. Sire to thyself, thyself as old as Fate.
Musick! soft charm of heav'n and earth, Whence didst thou borrow thy auspicious birth? Or art thou of eternal date. Sire to thyself, thyself as old as Fate.
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- Edmund Smith (identity unresolved)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 540 · quotation 10 · Edmund Smith · Ode in Praise of Musick
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