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The Violin.

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Touch gently, friend, and slow, the violin, So sweet and low,     That my dreaming senses may be beckoned so     Into a rest as deep as the long past "years ago!"     So softly, then, begin;     And ever gently touch the violin,     Until an impulse grows of a sudden, like wind     On the brow of the earth,     And the voice of your violin shows its wide-swung girth     With a crash of the strings and a medley of rage and mirth;     And my rested senses spring     Like juice from a broken rind,     And the joys that your melodies bring     I know worth a life-time to win,     As you waken to love and this hour your violin!

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"Touch gently, friend, and slow, the violin, So sweet and low,..."

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