Music
William Lisle Bowles
1762 to 1850
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O Harmony! thou tenderest nurse of pain,
If thy note's sweet magic e'er can heal
Griefs the patient spirit oft may feel,
Oh! let listen to thy songs again;
Till memory her tints shall bring;
Hope wake with brighter eye, listening seem
With smiles to think on some dream,
That waved o'er the charmed sense its wing!
For when thou leadest all thy soothing
More smooth along, the silent passions meet
one suspended transport, sad and sweet;
And nought sorrow's softest touch remains;
That, when the transitory is o'er,
Just wakes a tear, and then felt no more.