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Music For The Dying. From The French Of Sully Prudhomme

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Ye who will help me in my dying pain,          Speak not a word: let all your voices cease.     Let me but hear some soft harmonious strain,          And I shall die at peace.     Music entrances, soothes, and grants relief          From all below by which we are opprest;     I pray you, speak no word unto my grief,          But lull it into rest.     Tired am I of all words, and tired of aught          That may some falsehood from the ear conceal,     Desiring rather sounds which ask no thought,          Which I need only feel:      A melody in whose delicious streams          The soul may sink, and pass without a breath     From fevered fancies into quiet dreams,          From dreaming into death.

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