<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573204" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song written At Mr. Thomson’s Request</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AS A KIND OF INTRODUCTION<br>TO HIS IRISH MELODIES. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">SWEET power of song! that canst impart<br>To lowland swain or mountaineer<br>A gladness thrilling through the heart,<br>A joy so tender and so dear!<br>Sweet power! that on a foreign strand<br>Canst the rough soldier's bosom move<br>With feelings of his native land,<br>As gentle as an infant's love!<br>Sweet power! that makest youthful heads,<br>With thistle, leek or shamrock crowned,<br>Nod proudly as the carol sheds<br>Its spirit through the social round!<br>Sweet power! that cheerest the daily toil<br>Of cottage maid or beldame poor,<br>The ploughman on the furrowed soil,<br>Or herd-boy on the lonely moor:<br>Or he by bards the Shepherd hight,<br>Who mourns his maiden's broken tie,<br>Till the sweet plaint, in woe's despite,<br>Hath made a bliss of agony:<br>Sweet power of song! thanks flow to thee<br>From every kind and gentle breast!<br>Let Erin's--Cambria's minstrels be<br>With Burns's tuneful spirit blest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joanna+Baillie">Joanna Baillie</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=573204" data-title="Song written At Mr. Thomson’s Request de Joanna Baillie" data-description="AS A KIND OF INTRODUCTION TO HIS IRISH MELODIES. SWEET power of song! that canst impart To lowland swain or mountaineer A gladness thrilling through the heart, A joy so tender and so dear! Sweet power! that on a foreign strand Canst the rough so..."></div> </div> </div>

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