Where love’s voice young gladness may restore.
—O thou dove! now soaring through the day,
Lend me wings to reach that better shore,
Far away!
[418] This, and the five following songs, have been set to music of great merit, by J. Zeugheer Herrmann and H. F. Chorley, Esq., and are published in a set by Mr Power, who has given permission for the appearance of the words in this volume.
THE LYRE AND FLOWER.
A lyre its plaintive sweetness pour’d
Forth on the wild wind’s track;
The stormy wanderer jarr’d the chord,
But gave no music back.—