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The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

With "A Cypresse Grove": Edited by L. E. Kastner

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xviii. Amphion of marble.

This Amphion, Phidias frame,
Though sencelesse it apeare,
Doth liue, and is the same
Did Thebes towres vpreare;
And if his harpe he tuitche not to your eare,
No wonder, his harmonious sounds alone
Wauld you amaze, & change him selfe in stone.