Excerpt from Joy, and Other Poems

Invocation

I

Play on my soul, thou Spirit from the skies,

And with me rise

Far o'er the tops of upward-gazing trees,

That I, before so mute,

Transformed, become thy lute,

May learn the secret of all harmonies.

Be seated in a warm love-light;

Play tenderly, and from some tranquil height

Drop down clear notes of peace to men below:

Possess me, fly with me - I care not where we

II

Ah! do not sing of pain!

But from the chords entice

At eve a moving strain;

And, by some rare device,

Turn all my tears to music-pearls, and set

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