<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456011" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On a Viola D'Amore</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">CARVED WITH A CUPID'S HEAD, AND PLAYED ON FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER MORE THAN A CENTURY. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>What fairy music clear and light, <br>Responsive to your fingers, <br>Swells rippling on the summer night, <br>And amorously lingers <br>Upon the sense, as long ago <br>In days of rouge and rococo! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A century of silence lay <br>On strings that had not spoken <br>Since powdered lords to ladies gay <br>Gave, for a lover's token, <br>Fans glowing fresh from Watteau's art, <br>Well worth a marchioness's heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your dormant music, tranced and bound, <br>Was like the Sleeping Beauty <br>Prince Charming in the forest found, <br>And kissed in loyal duty: <br>And when she woke her eyes' blue fire <br>Turned the dumb forest to a lyre. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus Amor with the bandaged eyes, <br>Fit symbol of hushed numbers, <br>Most musically wakes and sighs <br>After an age of slumbers: <br>Beneath your magic bow's control <br>The Viol has regained her soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mathilde+Blind">Mathilde Blind</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=456011" data-title="On a Viola D'Amore de Mathilde Blind" data-description="CARVED WITH A CUPID'S HEAD, AND PLAYED ON FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER MORE THAN A CENTURY. What fairy music clear and light, Responsive to your fingers, Swells rippling on the summer night, And amorously lingers Upon the sense, as long ago In..."></div> </div> </div>

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