Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . LORD MACAULAY 1800—1859. rCr% i- Who would ever have expected to find our great partisan his-torian and Indian statesman writing a valentine? It is Herculesspinning for Omphale. The Roman ballads are robust andglorious, but then they arc not occasional poems, and would notsuit our purpose. SONG. 0 STAY, MADONNA ! STAY. k O stay, Madonna ! stay ; Tis not the dawn of dayThat marks the skies with yonder opal streak The stars in silence shine ; Then press thy lip

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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 . LORD MACAULAY 1800—1859. rCr% i- Who would ever have expected to find our great partisan his-torian and Indian statesman writing a valentine? It is Herculesspinning for Omphale. The Roman ballads are robust andglorious, but then they arc not occasional poems, and would notsuit our purpose. SONG. 0 STAY, MADONNA ! STAY. k O stay, Madonna ! stay ; Tis not the dawn of dayThat marks the skies with yonder opal streak The stars in silence shine ; Then press thy lips to mine,And rest upon my neck thy fervid cheek. O sleep, Madonna ! sleep ; Leave me to watch and weepOer the sad memory of departed joys. Oer hopes extinguished beam, Oer fancys vanished all that nature gives and man destroys.

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