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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455628" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to Della Crusca</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ENLIGHTEN'D Patron of the sacred Lyre?<br>Whose ever-varying, ever-witching song<br>Revibrates on the heart<br>With magic thrilling touch,<br>Till ev'ry nerve with quiv'ring throb divine,<br>In madd'ning tumults, owns thy wondrous pow'r;<br>For well thy dulcet notes<br>Can wind the mazy song,<br>In labyrinth of wild fantastic form;<br>Or with empassion'd pathos woo the soul<br>With sounds more sweetly mild,<br>Than SAPPHO's plaint forlorn,<br>When bending o'er the wave she sung her woes,<br>While pitying ECHO hover'd o'er the deep,<br>Till in their coral caves,<br>The tuneful NEREIDES wept.<br>AH! whither art thou flown? where pours thy song?<br>The model and the pride of British bards!<br>Sweet STAR of FANCY's orb,<br>&quot;O, tell me, tell me, where?&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say, dost thou waste it on the viewless air<br>That bears it to the confines of high Heav'n?<br>Or does it court the meed<br>Of proud pre-eminence?<br>Or steals it o'er the glitt'ring Sapphire wave,<br>Calming the tempest with its silver sounds?<br>Or does it charm to love<br>The fond believing maid?<br>Or does it hover o'er the ALPINE steep,<br>Or softly breathing under myrtle shades,<br>With SYMPATHY divine,<br>Solace the child of woe?<br>Where'er thou art, Oh! let thy gentle strain<br>Again with magic pow'r delight mine ear,<br>Untutor'd in the spells,<br>And mysteries of song.<br>Then, on the margin of the deep I'll muse,<br>And bless the rocking bark ordain'd to bear<br>My sad heart o'er the wave,<br>From this ungrateful isle;<br>When the wan queen of night, with languid eye,<br>Peeps o'er the mountain's head, or thro' the vale<br>Illumes the glassy brook,<br>Or dew-besprinkled heath,<br>Or with her crystal lamp, directs the feet<br>Of the benighted TRAV'LLER, cold, and sad,<br>Thro' the long forest drear,<br>And pathless labyrinth,<br>To the poor PEASANT's hospitable cot,<br>For ever open to the wretch forlorn;<br>O, then I'll think on THEE,<br>And iterate thy strain, <br>And chaunt thy matchless numbers o'er and o'er,<br>And I will court the sullen ear of night,<br>To bear the rapt'rous sound,<br>On her dark shad'wy wing,<br>To where encircled by the sacred NINE,<br>Thy LYRE awakes the never-dying song!<br>Now, BARD admir'd, farwel!<br>The white sail flutters loud,<br>The gaudy streamers lengthen in the gale,<br>Far from my native shore I bend my way;<br>Yet, as my aching eye<br>Shall view the less'ning cliff,<br>'Till its stupendous head shall scarce appear<br>Above the surface of the swelling deep;<br>I'll snatch a ray of hope,<br>For HOPE's the lamp divine<br>That lights and vivifies the fainting soul,<br>With extacies beyond the pow'rs of song!<br>That ere I reach those banks<br>Where the loud TIBER flows,<br>Or milder ARNO slowly steals along,<br>To the soft music of the summer breeze,<br>The wafting wing of TIME<br>May bear this last ADIEU,<br>This wild untutor'd picture of the heart,<br>To HIM, whose magic verse INSPIR'D THE STRAIN.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Darby+Robinson">Mary Darby Robinson</a><div class=q>
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Whose ever-varying, ever-witching song
Revibrates on the heart
With magic thrilling touch,
Till ev'ry nerve with quiv'ring throb divine,
In madd'ning tumults, owns thy wondrous pow'r;
For well thy dulcet note..."></div>
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