Page:The nature and elements of poetry, Stedman, 1892.djvu/288

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IMAGINATION

Such is not the poetry which stirs one to make an avowal like Sir Philip Sidney's:

"I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet."