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- The harp the monarch minstrel swept,
- The King of men, the loved of Heaven,
- Which Music hallowd while she wept
- Oer tones her heart of hearts had given,
- Redoubled be her tears, its chords are riven!
- It softend men of iron mould,
- It gave them virtues not their own;
- No ear so dull, no soul so cold,
- That felt not, fired not to the tone,
- Till Davids lyre grew mightier than his throne!
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- It told the triumphs of our King,
- It wafted glory to our God;
- It made our gladdend valleys ring,
- The cedars bow, the mountains nod;
- Its sound aspired to heaven and there abode!
- Since then, though heard on earth no more,
- Devotion and her daughter Love
- Still bid the bursting spirit soar
- To sounds that seem as from above,
- In dreams that days broad light can not remove.
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