<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539819" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Key-Board</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Five-and-thirty black slaves,<br>Half-a-hundred white,<br>All their duty but to sing<br>For their Queen's delight,<br>Now with throats of thunder,<br>Now with dulcet lips,<br>While she rules them royally<br>With her finger-tips!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When she quits her palace,<br>All the slaves are dumb-<br>Dumb with dolour till the Queen<br>Back to Court is come:<br>Dumb the throats of thunder,<br>Dumb the dulcet lips,<br>Lacking all the sovereignty<br>Of her finger-tips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dusky slaves and pallid,<br>Ebon slaves and white,<br>When the Queen was on her throne<br>How you sang to-night!<br>Ah, the throats of thunder!<br>Ah, the dulcet lips!<br>Ah, the gracious tyrannies<br>Of her finger-tips!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Silent, silent, silent,<br>All your voices now;<br>Was it then her life alone<br>Did your life endow?<br>Waken, throats of thunder!<br>Waken, dulcet lips!<br>Touched to immortality<br>By her finger-tips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Watson">William Watson</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=539819" data-title="The Key-Board de William Watson" data-description="Five-and-thirty black slaves, Half-a-hundred white, All their duty but to sing For their Queen's delight, Now with throats of thunder, Now with dulcet lips, While she rules them royally With her finger-tips! When she quits her palace, All the sla..."></div> </div> </div>

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