Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 39 1833/Echo Song

by Felicia Hemans

For other versions of this work, see Echo Song.

The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 39, Pages 411-412

Echo Song.

In thy cavern-hall,
    Echo, art thou sleeping?
By the fountain's fall
    Dreamy silence keeping?
Yet one soft note borne
From the shepherd's horn

Wakes thee, Echo, into music leaping!

Strange, sweet Echo! into music leaping?

Then the woods rejoice,
    Then glad sounds are swelling,
From each sister-voice
    Round thy rocky dwelling;
And their sweetness fills
All the hollow hills

With a thousand notes, of one life telling,—

Softly-mingled notes, of one life telling.

Echo! in my heart
    These deep thoughts are lying,
Silent and apart,
    Buried, yet undying;
Till some gentle tone,
Wakening, haply, one,

Calls a thousand forth, like thee replying!—

Strange, sweet Echo! e'en like thee replying!

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