CXXIII.

Such visions, poised upon entrancing notes,

May waft some waif toward congenial ports;

Poised on the wind, ineffable music floats,

In the enchantress face holding her courts;

In the harmonious pants of drunken joy;

In the traitorous interchange of random vows;

In the commutual wave of forest boughs;

In thought, whose arbitrary response wakes,

Fashioning the melody to peculiar laws;

In passion, surging, by its own quick shakes,

Wresting aside the unapprehensive cause;

Swift-winged ideas waft her from her throne;

Music scarce knows the offspring for her own.

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