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Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
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With eyes up-raised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sate retired, And from her wild sequestered seat, In notes by distance made more swee…
O Music! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!
'T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild.
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired.
By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung.
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