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WITH SILVER STRINGS by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON

First Line: WITH SILVER STRINGS MY HARP IS STRUNG
Last Line: ON SILVER WINGS!
Subject(s): HAPPINESS; HARPS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; SINGING & SINGERS; JOY; DELIGHT; LYRES; SONGS;

With silver strings my harp is strung
And in an inner crypt is hung
So other fingers may not stroke
Its silver strings, its frame of oak;
No other hear its song.. once sung:
The wild sweet songs its silver tongue
Once wildly to the wooing flung,
With silver strings

That lisped with joy ... with pain was wrung;
With ecstacy that glows among
The leaping flames, the fumes that choke,
The lurid lights, the acrid smoke,
That veiled the night whose pearls are slung
On silver wings!



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