LIFE'S MUSIC.
Exemplified in Sonnets, xliii.
Impassioned songs are sung at eventide, With tender voice discerning how to woo, The pathos of those poets who have died,
Surviving in entreaties to be true. Old valued songs g ne over once again, Unaltered through diversity of time ; Choice words »nd airs inspiring hearts of men With fancies which are part of the sublime. List to the voice of love, when love is young,
What gentleness diffuses all around ; What genial thoughts find issue in the tongue, Melodious to the full in their resound ; Love that is pure delighting to be sung In language wherein music may abound. XLIV. I court my mistress for her voice alone,
A voice expressing love and truth combined, A sympathy pervading every tone, In touoh with fond emotions of the mind. Language conveying beauty to the sense,
Accordant words inspiring warmth of heart, A graciousness excluding all pretence.
While fostering true confidence apart. I court this love through restless nights and days, Revising all that I nave said and done, No matter what diversity of ways ; Continuing the theme I have begun To furnish proof through furtherance of praise. That love is coy though waitiDg to be won. — Esmond.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1911, 6 July 1888, Page 29
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203LIFE'S MUSIC. Otago Witness, Issue 1911, 6 July 1888, Page 29
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