<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409130" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vox Et Pr</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've been haunted all night, I've been haunted all day,<br>By the ghost of a song, by the shade of a lay,<br>That with meaningless words and profusion of rhyme,<br>To a dreamy and musical rhythm keeps time.<br>A simple, but still a most magical strain,<br>Its dim monotones have bewildered my brain<br>With a specious and cunning appearance of thought,<br>I seem to be catching but never have caught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know it embodies some very sweet things,<br>And can almost divine the low burden it sings;<br>But again, and again, and still ever again,<br>It has died on my ear at the touch of my pen.<br>And so it keeps courting and shunning my quest,<br>As a bird that has just been aroused from her nest,<br>Too fond to depart, and too frightened to stay,<br>Now circles about you, now flutters away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! give me fit words for that exquisite song,<br>And thou couldst not, proud beauty! be obdurate long;<br>It would come like the voice of a saint from above,<br>And win thee to kindness, and melt thee to love.<br>Not gilded with fancy, nor frigid with art,<br>But simple as feeling, and warm as the heart,<br>It would murmur my name with so charming a tone,<br>As would almost persuade thee to wish it thine own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Timrod">Henry Timrod</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409130" data-title="Vox Et Pr de Henry Timrod" data-description="I've been haunted all night, I've been haunted all day, By the ghost of a song, by the shade of a lay, That with meaningless words and profusion of rhyme, To a dreamy and musical rhythm keeps time. A simple, but still a most magical strain, Its di..."></div> </div> </div>

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