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The sky-lark - National Library of Scotland

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THE SKY- LARK. #71<br />

By that lip 1 long to taste ;<br />

By that zone-encircled waist,<br />

By all the token-flowers, that tell<br />

What words can never speak so well;<br />

By love's alternate joy and woe,<br />

My life ! my life! I love you.<br />

Maid <strong>of</strong> Athens ! I am gone,<br />

Think <strong>of</strong> me, sweet! when alone,<br />

Though I fly to Istamboul,<br />

Athens holds my heart and soul;<br />

Can I cease to love thee?—No!<br />

My life! my life! I love you.<br />

GLEE.<br />

Music's the language <strong>of</strong> the blest above,<br />

No voice but music's en eaxpress<br />

<strong>The</strong> joys that happy souls possess,<br />

Nor in just raptures tell the wond'rous power <strong>of</strong> love<br />

'Tis nature's dialect, design'd<br />

To charm and to instruct the mind.<br />

Music's an universal good,<br />

That doth dispense its joys around,<br />

In all the elegance <strong>of</strong> sound,<br />

To be by men admir'd, by angels understood.

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