A form that can with thine compare.

I love to hear the gentle swell

Of music on the midnight air;

I love to tread the lonely dell—

I love the torrent-music there;

But oh, more charming far to me

Than music’s sweetest notes can be,

Is that confiding, trembling tone,

Which hangs upon thy lips alone.

METRICAL TRANSLATIONS OF A LATIN STANZA.