A Fable—The Hon. Henry Erskine, late Lord Advocate of Scotland.
The Musical Instruments.
A Fable.
The Beaux and Belles were gone, the Concert o’er,
And Kelly’s sprightly strains were heard no more;
Thro’ the deserted room dead silence reign’d,
And still and dumb each tuneful string remain’d;
When from the case in which a Fiddle lay
Arose a voice that said or seem’d to say: