This be the meed, that thy Song creates a thousandfold Echo! Sweet as the warble of woods that awake at the gale of the Morning! List! the Hearts of the Pure, like Caves in the ancient Mountains Deep, deep @3in@1 the Bosom, and @3from@1 the Bosom resound it, Each with a different Tone, complete or in musical fragments, All have welcom'd thy Voice, and receive and retain and prolong it! This is the word of the Lord! -- it is spoken, and Beings Eternal Live and are born, as an Infant -- the Eternal begets the Immortal! Love is the Spirit of Life, and Music the Life of the Spirit. -- |