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First Line: Music, thou queen of souls, get up and string
Last Line: Strike a sad note, and fix them trees again.
Variant Title(s): A Song
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Trees


Music, thou queen of souls, get up and string
Thy powerful lute and some sad requiem sing,
'Till mountains greet the echoes with a groan,
And the broken rocks repeat the duller tone;
Then, on a sudden, with a nimble hand,
Run gently o'er the chords, and so command
The pine to dance, the oak his roots forego,
The holm and aged elm to foot it too;
Myrtles shall caper, lofty cedars run,
And call the courtly palm to make uo one;
Then, in the midst of all their jolly train,
Strike a sad note, and fix them trees again.







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