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SONGS FOR MUSIC.


O'er long buried flowers
    Passing, not in vain,
Odours in soft showers
    Thou hast brought again.
—Let the primrose greet thee,
    Let the violet pour
Incense forth to meet thee—
    Wake my heart no more!
No more!

From a funeral urn
    Bowered in leafy gloom,
Ev'n thy soft return
    Calls not song or bloom.
Leave my spirit sleeping
    Like that silent thing;
Stir the founts of weeping
    There, O breeze of spring,
No more!