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A MELOLOGUE UPON NATIONAL MUSIC: INTRODUCTORY MUSIC - HAYDN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There breathes the language, known and felt
Last Line: Of human passion rise and fall for thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


There breathes the language, known and felt
Far as the pure air spreads its living zone,
Wherever rage can rouse, or pity melt
That language of the soul is felt and known.
From those meridian plains,
(Where oft, of old, on some high tower,
The soft Peruvian pour'd his midnight strains,
And call'd his distant love with such sweet power
That when she heard the lonely lay,
Not worlds could keep her from his arms away)
To the bleak climes of polar night,
Where, beneath a sunless sky,
The Lapland lover bids his reindeer fly,
And sings along the lengthening waste of snow,
As blithe as if the blessed light
Of vernal Phoebus burn'd upon his brow.
O Music! thy celestial claim
Is still resistless, still the same!
And faithful as the mighty sea
To the pale star that o'er its realm presides,
The spell-bound tides
Of human passion rise and fall for thee!





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