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\nThe harp the monarch minstrel swept,
\nThe King of men, the loved of Heaven,
\nWhich Music hallow’d while she wept
\nO’er tones her heart of hearts had given,
\nRedoubled be her tears, its chords are riven!
\nIt soften’d men of iron mould,
\nIt gave them virtues not their own;
\nNo ear so dull, no soul so cold,
\nThat felt not, fired not to the tone,
\nTill David’s lyre grew mightier than his throne!<\/p>\n
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\nIt told the triumphs of our King,
\nIt wafted glory to our God;
\nIt made our gladden’d valleys ring,
\nThe cedars bow, the mountains nod;
\nIts sound aspired to heaven and there abode!
\nSince then, though heard on earth no more,
\nDevotion and her daughter Love
\nStill bid the bursting spirit soar
\nTo sounds that seem as from above,
\nIn dreams that day’s broad light can not remove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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