Music is
The soul of art, best loved when love is by.
Raleigh, spoken of under the character of a shepherd, is a swain
Whom all the Graces kissed;
and Pan, a god that
With gentle nymphs in forests high
Kissed out the sweet time of his infancy.
That is very beautiful. Warton, in his History of Poetry, has expressed his admiration of a “charm” in Browne’s Inner Temple Masque, in which, down by the banks of Lethe, dewdrops are said to be for ever hanging
On the limber grass,
Poppy and mandragoras;
and Lethe is described as flowing
Without coil,
Softly, like a stream of oil.