"MUSIC strain, where do you go, When you hush and vanish so?" "Why, I only take my rest In a spot that's beauty-blest." "Music strain, may mortals too Gird them up and go with you?" "Nay, for I am all divine And my country is not thine." "Music strain, will death reveal All the bliss you make us feel?" "Mortal, harken, love me well, And together we may dwell." "Yes, but when, O subtle song! For the waiting seems so long?" "I will house thee safe and sure, When thy love is perfect-pure." "Ah, it seems I can not stay For the break of such a day!" "Mortal, it is wondrous near; Hope and hark, and have no fear." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG JINNY THE JUST by MATTHEW PRIOR GOD SAVE THE NATION! by THEODORE TILTON SIX TOWN ECLOGUES: SATURDAY; THE SMALL-POX by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU OH, MOTHER DEAR! by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS |