 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank, in faithless memory void,...  Ancient Irish Minstrelsy - Page xxviby William Hamilton Drummond - 1852 - 292 pagesFull view - About this book
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...wild, The old man raised his face and imil'd ; And lighted up his faded eye With all a poet's extacy. 1 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along. The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot. Cold diffidence and age's... | |
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...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along; The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's... | |
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...The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's... | |
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...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants,' were all forgot: Cold diffidence and age's... | |
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