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The triumph of music

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

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HYMN.

YE dear, and honour'd dead, with whom
I pass my visionary days;
Enamour'd of the sacred tomb,
Where bright the lamps of virtue blaze!
On me, ye gentle spirits, smile,
While I discharge affection's trust!
And all my pangs of grief beguile
With zealous duty to your dust.
Manfredi.