. Tales of adventure and stories of travel of fifty years ago. d when at last from thy sweet discourse springsThe aerial music, like the dreams that veilEarths shadows with diviner thoughts and things,Oh, let the passion and the time prevail !Oh, bid thy spirit thro the mazes run !For music is like love—and must be won ! iiOh, wake the rich chords with thy delicate fingers !Oh, loose the enchanted Music from mute sleep !Methinks the fine Phantasma near thee lingers,Yet will not come, unless tones strong and deepCompel him—Ah ! methinks (as love-avengersRequite upon the heads of those who weepT
. Tales of adventure and stories of travel of fifty years ago. d when at last from thy sweet discourse springsThe aerial music, like the dreams that veilEarths shadows with diviner thoughts and things,Oh, let the passion and the time prevail !Oh, bid thy spirit thro the mazes run !For music is like love—and must be won ! iiOh, wake the rich chords with thy delicate fingers !Oh, loose the enchanted Music from mute sleep !Methinks the fine Phantasma near thee lingers,Yet will not come, unless tones strong and deepCompel him—Ah ! methinks (as love-avengersRequite upon the heads of those who weepThe sorrows which they gave) the sullen thingDeserts thee, as thou leftst the vanquishd string. inNo—no—it comes, sweeter than death or life,Sweeter than hope, or joy beneath the moon ;Sweeter than all is that harmonious strife,From whose embrace is born a perfect tune,Where every varying note with thought is —bid thy tender voice enchant us soon,With whatsoeer thou wilt—with love—with fears,The rage of passion, or the strength of W oodb u ry-Gr THE LADY WALLSCOURT. By Sir Thomas Lawrence, 45 NOTES OF A SPANISH RAMBLE, INTHE SUMMER OF 1839 By Lord John Manners[Reprinted by permission of His Grace the Duke of Rutland, ~\ It was now the end of July, and as our Rambles inSpain were soon to be concluded, we determined to leaveour comfortable quarters at Ofiate, but were not a littlepuzzled which way to bend our steps. Zaraetegui andMadrazo had advised us by all means to make an incursioninto Navarre, and hinted at the probability of some realfighting taking place in that province in a few days. Onthe other hand, Don Sebastian and the Duke of Grenadahad invited the whole court to a weeks festivities atAzpeitia ; and Prince Carini and the young Frenchmanpressed us to accompany them thither. After some hesi-tation, however, we decided in favour of Navarre ; andaccordingly, after dinner, on Monday, the 29th of July,mounted our mules and started,
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