Another to the Same. (To Leonora)
Another Leonora[1] once inspir'd Tasso, with fatal love to frenzy fir'd, But how much happier, liv'd he now, were he, Pierced with whatever pangs for love of Thee! Since could he hear that heavenly voice of thine, With Adriana's lute[2] of sound divine, Fiercer than Pentheus'[3] tho' his eye might roll, Or idiot apathy benumb his soul, You still, with medicinal sounds, might cheer His senses wandering in a blind career; And sweetly breathing thro' his wounded breast, Charm, with soul-soothing song, his thoughts to rest.
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