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Thy living lyre alone, whose dulcet sounds In gentlest murmurs floating on the air, Could calm the fury of the woe-struck king, And soothe the agony which pierced his heart. Or when thou swept the master strings, and rolled’st The deep impetuous tide along with more Than mortal sound, could’st raise his raptured soul To ecstacy; or from the tortured strings Harsh discord shaking, sink him in the gulf Of dire despair, while horror chilled his blood, And from each pore the agonizing sweat Distilled! that deep-toned lyre alone can sing Thy fervent piety, thy glowing zeal.
Thy living lyre alone, whose dulcet sounds In gentlest murmurs floating on the air, Could calm the fury of the woe-struck king, And soothe the agony which pierced his heart. Or when thou swept the master strings, and rolled’st The deep impetuous tide along with more Than mortal sound, could’st raise his raptured soul To ecstacy; or from the tortured strings Harsh discord shaking, sink him in the gulf Of dire despair, while horror chilled his blood, And from each pore the agonizing sweat Distilled! that deep-toned lyre alone can sing Thy fervent piety, thy glowing zeal.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- William Hodson (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 164 · printed citation: William Hodson · subject: DAVID
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