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ECHO SONG by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS

Poet Analysis

First Line: IN THY CAVERN-HALL
Last Line: -- STRANGE, SWEET ECHO! EVEN LIKE THEE REPLYING.
Subject(s): ECHO (MYTHOLOGY);

IN thy cavern-hall,
Echo! art thou sleeping?
By the fountain's fall
Dreamy silence keeping?
Yet one soft note borne
From the shepherd's horn,
Wakes thee, Echo! into music leaping!
Strange, sweet Echo! into music leaping.

Then the woods rejoice,
Then glad sounds are swelling
From each sister-voice
Round thy rocky dwelling;
And their sweetness fills
All the hollow hills,
With a thousand notes, of @3one@1 life telling!
-- Softly mingled notes, of one life telling.

Echo! in my heart
Thus deep thoughts are lying,
Silent and apart,
Buried, yet undying;
Till some gentle tone
Wakening haply @3one@1,
Calls a thousand forth, like thee replying!
-- Strange, sweet Echo! even like thee replying.



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