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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Such was the song.—But whose the tongue
From which the varied music sprung?
The voice was a Spirit's—but not of the sky;
Nor of grotto, nor vale where merry ouphes lie:
She dwelt not on mountain, she dwelt not in wood,
Nor in murmuring rill, nor in river's bright flood:—
Oh! where to that Spirit of beauty was given
A dwelling, if neither on Earth, nor in Heaven?
She dwelt in the glittering caves of the Deep,
And oft on the foam of the billows would sleep,—
And the billows she slept on appear'd, as they roll'd,
Like the clouds of the air, when all border'd with gold—
She dwelt in the Ocean—a Spirit as bright
As ever yet smil'd in the regions of light.
From which the varied music sprung?
The voice was a Spirit's—but not of the sky;
Nor of grotto, nor vale where merry ouphes lie:
She dwelt not on mountain, she dwelt not in wood,
Nor in murmuring rill, nor in river's bright flood:—
Oh! where to that Spirit of beauty was given
A dwelling, if neither on Earth, nor in Heaven?
She dwelt in the glittering caves of the Deep,
And oft on the foam of the billows would sleep,—
And the billows she slept on appear'd, as they roll'd,
Like the clouds of the air, when all border'd with gold—
She dwelt in the Ocean—a Spirit as bright
As ever yet smil'd in the regions of light.
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