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Tasso and the Sisters

Tasso's Spirit: The Nuptials of Juno: The Skeletons: The Spirits of the Ocean. Poems, By Thomas Wade

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The song—the song!—it was warbled by lips
Sweet as whatever the honey-bee sips—
And where?
By the Sea—by the Sea—for no region can be
So fit for a Spirit divine, as the Sea—
Play-ground of the winds, the limitless place
Where they love the white foam of the billows to chase—
'Twas there.
But the song—the song!—by a Spirit 'twas sung,
And these the wild notes o'er the waters that rung: