Rhyme? and reason? . tokturhd, unaided, and alone THE THIRD VOICE. I I 5 But saddest, darkest was the sight,When the cold grasp of leaden NightDashed him to earth, and held him tight. Tortured, unaided, and alone,Thunders were silence to his groan,Bagpipes sweet music to its tone : What? Ever thus, in dismal round,Shall Pain and Mystery profoundPursue me like a sleepless hound, With crimson-dashed and eager jaws,Me, still in ignorance of the cause,Unknowing what I broke of laws? The whisper to his ear did seemLike echoed flow of silent stream,Or shadow of forgotten dream, The whisper trembling
Rhyme? and reason? . tokturhd, unaided, and alone THE THIRD VOICE. I I 5 But saddest, darkest was the sight,When the cold grasp of leaden NightDashed him to earth, and held him tight. Tortured, unaided, and alone,Thunders were silence to his groan,Bagpipes sweet music to its tone : What? Ever thus, in dismal round,Shall Pain and Mystery profoundPursue me like a sleepless hound, With crimson-dashed and eager jaws,Me, still in ignorance of the cause,Unknowing what I broke of laws? The whisper to his ear did seemLike echoed flow of silent stream,Or shadow of forgotten dream, The whisper trembling in the wind :Her fate with thine was intertwined,So spake it in his inner mind:. M .ft .TTostr ^^->&%^W?£:-\ A SCARED DULLARD, GIBBERING LOW THE THIRD VOICE. Each orbed on each a baleful star :Each proved the others blight and bar :Each unto each were best, most far : Yea, each to each was worse than foe :Thou, a scared dullard, gibbering low,And she, an avalanche of woe ! 117 TEMA CON VARIAZIONI. [Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to thatprocess of Dilution which has proved so advantageous toher sister-art Music? The Diluter gives us first a fewnotes of some well-known Air, then a dozen bars of hisown, then a few more notes of the Air, and so onalternately : thus saving the listener, if not from all riskof recognising the melody at all, at least from the too-exciting transports which it might produce in a moreconcentrated form. The process is termed setting byComposers, and any one, that has ever experienced theemotion of being unexpectedly set down in a heap ofmortar, will recognise the truthfulness of this happy truly, just a
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