Quote #93

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

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  1. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold.
  2. When the gust hath blown his fill, Ending on the rustling leaves With minute drops from off the eaves.
  3. But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, …
  4. Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such cons…
  5. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.
  6. And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In servi…
  7. Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth.
  8. Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

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