. Literature, art and song: Moore's melodies and American poems; . ®foVt are sounds of mirth in the night-air ringing, And lamps from every casement shown;While voices blithe within are singing, That seem to say Come, in every ! once how Kght, in Lifes young season, My heart had leapd at that sweet lay;Nor pausd to ask of greybeard Reason Should I the syren call obey. And, see—the lamps still livelier glitter. The syren lips more fondly sound;No, seek, ye nymphs, some victim fitterTo sink in your rosy bondage a bard, whom not the world in armsd bend to tyrannys rude controul
. Literature, art and song: Moore's melodies and American poems; . ®foVt are sounds of mirth in the night-air ringing, And lamps from every casement shown;While voices blithe within are singing, That seem to say Come, in every ! once how Kght, in Lifes young season, My heart had leapd at that sweet lay;Nor pausd to ask of greybeard Reason Should I the syren call obey. And, see—the lamps still livelier glitter. The syren lips more fondly sound;No, seek, ye nymphs, some victim fitterTo sink in your rosy bondage a bard, whom not the world in armsd bend to tyrannys rude controul,quail, at sight of womans charms,yield to a smile his freeborn soul. 23G
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