Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . ^ ;,T V^^ / MAID OF ATHENS, ERE WE TART Maid of Athens, ere we part,Give, oh give me back my heart!Or, since that has left my breast,Keep it now, and take the rest !Hear my vow before I go,Z(ar] jxov, (Tus ayaivoi. By those tresses unconfinedWooed by each ^gean wind ;By those lids whose jetty fringeKiss thy soft checks blooming tinge ;V,rj fiov, aas ayaTiS). ?? k. ^j- \^^ m Tlierc be none of Beautys daughters With a magic hke thee ;And like music on the water

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Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . ^ ;,T V^^ / MAID OF ATHENS, ERE WE TART Maid of Athens, ere we part,Give, oh give me back my heart!Or, since that has left my breast,Keep it now, and take the rest !Hear my vow before I go,Z(ar] jxov, (Tus ayaivoi. By those tresses unconfinedWooed by each ^gean wind ;By those lids whose jetty fringeKiss thy soft checks blooming tinge ;V,rj fiov, aas ayaTiS). ?? k. ^j- \^^ m Tlierc be none of Beautys daughters With a magic hke thee ;And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me:When, as if its sound were causingThe charmed oceans waves he still and gleaming,And the lulled winds seem dreaming And the midnight moon is weavingHer bright chain oer the deep, Whose breast is gently heavingAs an infants asleep : So the spirit bows before thee To listen and adore thee ; With a ftjll but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summers ocean.

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