 | Lyrics by John B Tabb |  |
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THE STATUE.
First fashioned in the artist's brain,
It stood as in the marble vein,
Revealed to him alone;
Nor could he from its native night
Have led it to the living light,
Save through the lifeless stone.
It stood as in the marble vein,
Revealed to him alone;
Nor could he from its native night
Have led it to the living light,
Save through the lifeless stone.
E'en so, of Silence and of Sound
A twin-born mystery is found,
Like as of death and birth;
Without the pause we had not heard
The harmony, nor caught the word
That Heaven reveals to Earth.
A twin-born mystery is found,
Like as of death and birth;
Without the pause we had not heard
The harmony, nor caught the word
That Heaven reveals to Earth.
| Lyrics by John B Tabb | |