Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]
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Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]
Author
Scollard, Clinton, 1860-1932
Publication
New York, N.Y.: Laurence J. Gomme
1916
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descriptionPage 123
THE LUTE-PLAYER
THERE came at eve an ardent lute-player Who stood before an open casement long,And breathed impassioned strains so sweet and strongThat the enamored breezes ceased to stir.The vesper-thrushes, choiring in the fir,Grew silent one by one, a raptured throng;Intent upon the burden of the song,It was as though the night turned worshiper.
Then over me a sudden thought there sweptOf the young shepherd who, without a fear,Played on his harp to soothe the mind of Saul;And, as the moonlight through the lattice crept,I seemed to see before me, ghostly clear,A jeweled javelin quivering in the wall!
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