| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | On Music | | By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| | | MANY love music but for music’s sake, | |
| Many because her touches can awake | |
| Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, | |
| And rise to follow where she loves to lead. | |
| What various feelings come from days gone by! | 5 |
| What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! | |
| Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play | |
| And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, | |
| Mind how at every touch, at every tone, | |
| A spark of life hath glisten’d and hath gone. | 10 | | | |
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