Its strings and bow are only triffling things—

A master-touch!—its sweet soul wakes and sings.

MAURICE DE GUERIN

By Maurice Francis Egan

The old wine filled him, and he saw, with eyes

Anoint of Nature, fauns and dryads fair

Unseen by others; to him maidenhair

And waxen lilacs, and those birds that rise

A-sudden from tall reeds at slight surprise,

Brought charmed thoughts; and in earth everywhere