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" Music ! oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell ! Why should Feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well ? Friendship's balmy words may feign. Love's are even more false than they ; Oh ! 'tis only Music's strain Can sweetly... "
Melodies, Songs, Sacred Songs, and National Airs: Containing Several Never ...
by Thomas Moore - 1821 - 252 pages
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Work and Play

Horace Bushnell - 1864 - 400 pages
...for intellectual discourse. Even as the poets, who are nature's best oracles, sing — ' Music ! O how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell...ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well ? ' Accordingly, as we are wont to argue the invisible things of God, even his eternal power and Godhead,...
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Work and Play

Horace Bushnell - 1864 - 424 pages
...for intellectual discourse. Even as the poets, who are nature's best oracles, sing — ' Music ! O how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell...ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well ? ' Accordingly, as we are wont to argue the invisible things of God, even his eternal power and Godhead,...
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The Church review, and ecclesiastical register ..., Volume 15, Issues 1863-1864

1864 - 708 pages
...heard in happier hours. Filled with balm the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death, So when pleasure's dream is gone Its memory lives in music's breath." Mr. Otey settled near Franklin, Tennessee, and opened a country School, boarding with Major James Maury....
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American Quarterly Church Review, and Ecclesiastical Register, Volume 15

1864 - 746 pages
...heard in happier hours. Filled with balm the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death, So when pleasure's dream is gone Its memory lives in music's breath." Mr. Otey settled near Franklin, Tennessee, and opened a country School, boarding with Major James Maury....
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The British Poets, Volume 4

1865 - 408 pages
...heard in happier hours ; Fill'd with balm, the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives...more false than they ; Oh! 'tis only music's strain IT IS NOT THE TEAR AT THIS MOMENT SHED.* IT is not the tear at this moment shed, When the cold turf...
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Lyra sacra, being a collection of hymns ancient and modern, odes and ...

Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1865 - 310 pages
...heard in happier hours ; Filled with balm, the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives...well ? Friendship's balmy words may feign, Love's are e'en more false than they ; Oh ! 'tis only Music's strain Can sweetly soothe, and not betray ! Moore....
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The Praise of Zion: A Collection of Music for Singing Schools, Choirs, and ...

Solon Wilder, Frederick S. Davenport - 1865 - 384 pages
...have sunk in dekth; So, when pleasure's train is goue Its memory lires in Mu- sic's breath. Г * * Friendship's balmy words may feign, Love's are ev'n more false than they; Oh! 'tis on - ly Mu-sic's stnin Con sweetly soothe and not be - tray. SF53L *~*=^£« CZEIO «LT T T^-N" •9—ФSINGING...
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The Amusing Songster

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 450 pages
...heard in happier hours ; Fill'd with balm, the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives...ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well t Friendship's balmy words may feign, Love's are ev'n more false than they ; Oh! 'tis only music's...
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The New Standard Song Book

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 300 pages
...heard in happier hours ; Fill'd with balm, the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives in music's breath ! Music ! — oh ! how faint,how weak, Language fades before thy spell ! Why should feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe...
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Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...heard in happier hours. Filled with balm the gale sighs on, though the flowers have sunk in death ; so, when pleasure's dream is gone, its memory lives in music's breath. T. MOORE 47 ZOFjE ^JVZ> FRIENDSHIP T OVE is like the shadow seen J— / when the sun first lights the...
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