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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes
  

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Sudden, amid their pastime, pause
The wondering nymphs; and, as the sound
Of that strange music nearer draws,
With mute enquiring eye look round,
Asking each other what can be
The source of this sad minstrelsy?
Nor longer can they doubt, the song
Comes from some island-bark, which now
Courses the bright waves swift along,

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And soon, perhaps, beneath the brow
Of the Saint's Rock will shoot its prow.