. Literature, art and song: Moore's melodies and American poems; . While evry joy that glads our sphereHath still some shadow hovering near,In this new world of ours, my dear, Such shadows will all be omitted:—Unless they re like that graceful one,Which, when thou rt dancing in the sun,Still near thee, leaves a charm upon Each spot where it hath flitted! Mtna fe in mx ^tM palfe/. ^ileUCC is in our festal halls,— Sweet Son of Song! thy course is oer;In vain on thee sad Erin calls. Her minstrels voice responds no more;—All silent as th Eolian shell Sleeps at the close of some bright day,When the
. Literature, art and song: Moore's melodies and American poems; . While evry joy that glads our sphereHath still some shadow hovering near,In this new world of ours, my dear, Such shadows will all be omitted:—Unless they re like that graceful one,Which, when thou rt dancing in the sun,Still near thee, leaves a charm upon Each spot where it hath flitted! Mtna fe in mx ^tM palfe/. ^ileUCC is in our festal halls,— Sweet Son of Song! thy course is oer;In vain on thee sad Erin calls. Her minstrels voice responds no more;—All silent as th Eolian shell Sleeps at the close of some bright day,When the sweet breeze, that waked its swell At sunny morn, hath died away. Yet, at our feasts, thy spirit long, Awaked by musics spell, shall rise;For, name so linkd with deathless song Partakes its charm and never dies;And evn within the holy fane, When music wafts the soul to heaven,One thought to him, whose earliest strain Was echoed there, shall long be given. But, where is now the cheerful day, The social night, when, by thy side,He, who now weaves this parting lay. His skilless voice with thine allied;And sung those songs whose every tone, When bard and minstrel long have past,Shall still, in sweetness all their own, Embalmd by fame, undying last. Yes, Erin, thine alone the fame,— Or, if thy bard have shared the thee the borrowd glory came. And at thy feet
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