The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before... Poems - Page 60by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1893 - 772 pages
...article I dealt with the Music of the Birds ; but Nature has many voices beyond those of our songsters. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell! sang Samuel Rogers a century ago. The same spell has found music in the babbling brook, the cry of... | |
| Young Methodism - 1876 - 152 pages
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...subject, — ever on the watch to borrow Mirth of his mirth and sorrow of his sorrow ! 212 MARRIAGE. MERSON. WARREN'S ADDRESS. STAND ! the ground 's your own, m ! SAMUEL ROGERS. SEVEN TIMES SIX. GIVING IN MARRIAGE. To bear, to nurse, to rear, To watch, and then... | |
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