Читать книгу Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 - Various - Страница 13

Where now the minstrel of the large renown,

Rapturing with living words the heark'ning throng?

Charming the Man to heaven, and earthward down

Charming the God?—who wing'd the soul with song?

Yet lives the minstrel, not the deeds—the lyre

Of old demands ears that of old believed it—

Bards of bless'd time—how flew your living fire

From lip to lip! how race from race received it!

As if a God, men hallow'd with devotion—

What Genius, speaking, shaping, wrought below,

The glow of song inflamed the ear's emotion,

The ear's emotion gave the song the glow;

Each nurturing each—back on his soul—its tone

Whole nations echoed with a rapture-peal;

Then all around the heavenly splendour shone

Which now the heart, and scarce the heart can feel.