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TAKE HERE THE TENDER HARP AGAIN, by                    
Last Line: To wake perhaps a loftier lay
Subject(s): Muses;prayer


TAKE here the tender harp again,
O Muse! which thou hast lent to me;
I wake no more the joyous strain
To youthful love or social glee.

Forgive the weak and sickly shell
That could so ill my soul express;
What most I wish'd I durst not tell,
And chose my themes from idleness.

Oft when I told of peace and pleasure,
I mark'd the hostile sabre shine;
And water, doled in scanty measure,
I drank, who wont to sing of wine.

Might peace, might love's auspicious fire
But gild at last my closing day,
Then, Goddess, then return the lyre
To wake perhaps a loftier lay.





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