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The triumph of music

a poem: in six cantos ... by William Hayley

Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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WHEN human sufferings wound my eyes,
My soothing hope be this,
That pain may prove, howe'er it rise,
An harbinger of bliss

Else, in weak nature's wide domain,
Where misery is so rife,
Could mercy's God himself sustain
The sight of mortal life?

Lucilio.