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Themes and Variations
THE MUSICIAN.
‘Stay, lovely messenger! one moment stay!
Nor deeper in that starry world retreat!
Stay, for the breaking day is fair and sweet,
And overhead the stars and sunlight meet;
The flittermouse floats on her homeward way!
Oh, if though may’st!—one moment here delay!’
Nor deeper in that starry world retreat!
Stay, for the breaking day is fair and sweet,
And overhead the stars and sunlight meet;
The flittermouse floats on her homeward way!
Oh, if though may’st!—one moment here delay!’
‘Stay, for I fain would know thy gentle name;
Much would I ask, how much of thee would learn!
Lift to my lips thy crystal-bearing urn!
Or say, at least, thou wilt to earth return,—
That I may see thee in the sunrise flame
As once before, and know thee for the same!’
Much would I ask, how much of thee would learn!
Lift to my lips thy crystal-bearing urn!
Or say, at least, thou wilt to earth return,—
That I may see thee in the sunrise flame
As once before, and know thee for the same!’
The bright-winged messenger no longer stayed,
Than in the fields the daisies’ dial-plate
Flashed to the opening day with silver state.
But from his bending urn, by heavenly fate,
Some drops fell on the child of earth who prayed.
Then on he moved, and joined the bright planet band
Travelling far onward toward the Amaranth land.
Than in the fields the daisies’ dial-plate
Flashed to the opening day with silver state.
But from his bending urn, by heavenly fate,
Some drops fell on the child of earth who prayed.
Then on he moved, and joined the bright planet band
Travelling far onward toward the Amaranth land.