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1788–1824

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

George Gordon Byron

There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me:

When, as if its sound were causing The charméd Ocean's pausing, The waves lie still and gleaming, And the lulled winds seem dreaming:

And the midnight Moon is weaving Her bright chain o'er the deep; Whose breast is gently heaving, As an infant's asleep:

So the spirit bows before thee, To listen and adore thee; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean.

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