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STANZAS FOR MUSIC (3) by GEORGE GORDON BYRON

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First Line: THERE BE NONE OF BEAUTY'S DAUGHTERS / WITH A MAGIC LIKE THEE;
Last Line: LIKE THE SWELL OF SUMMER'S OCEAN.
Subject(s): BEAUTY;

THERE be none of Beauty's daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charmed ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull'd winds seem dreaming

And the midnight moon is weaving
Her bright chain o'er the deep;
Whose breast is gently heaving,
As an infant's asleep:
So the spirit bows before thee,
To listen and adore thee;
With a full but soft emotion,
Like the swell of Summer's ocean.



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