Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 692
ced strings, while loud or low,Those glorious notes, fraught full with joy or woe,Had held the listening throngs in musics clasp ! But now his crippled hands no more could wakeThat mighty voice, yet he had gone, this night, To hear another draw those trembling trills, Those notes bespeaking… … CURIOSITY. BY MARGARET V. COOKE, AGE 15.(SILVER BADGE.) Louder, clearer, sweeter swells the music, The quiet hall is filled with rapturous strains ; Then plaintive measures which the soul express,Soft falling like the springs life-giving rains,Soon reach the old mans soul. His weary face,Grown…
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