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On Hearing Mrs. Woodhouse Play The Harpsichord

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We poets pride ourselves on what      We feel, and not what we achieve;     The world may call our children fools,      Enough for us that we conceive.     A little wren that loves the grass     Can be as proud as any lark      That tumbles in a cloudless sky,     Up near the sun, till he becomes      The apple of that shining eye.     So, lady, I would never dare      To hear your music ev'ry day;     With those great bursts that send my nerves      In waves to pound my heart away;     And those small notes that run like mice     Bewitched by light; else on those keys -      My tombs of song - you should engrave:     'My music, stronger than his own,      Has made this poet my dumb slave.'

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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