Quote#Art
The soul of music slumbers in the shell
Quote bySamuel Rogers · 1763–1855
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Human Life (1819).
English (original)
The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!
— Samuel Rogers
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Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.
Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near.
That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,— That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
True as the echo to the sound.
Oh ! She was good as she was fair, None—none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are: To know her was to love her.
To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.