SONNET IV. TO THE WELSH HARP.

Loved instrument! again repeat those sounds,

Those plaintive airs, that through my senses steal

With melancholy sweet. Their pow’r I feel

Soothing my sadness, healing sorrow’s wounds.

Gently thou lull’st my suff’rings to repose,

Inclin’st my heart to ev’ry virtuous deed;

Removing from my mind each dark’ning shade

That clouds my days, increasing all my woes.

Now swelling with the breeze, along thy vales,

Romantic Cambria! the strain I hear,

Then dying soft away, comes o’er my ear

In whispers soft, still wafted by thy gales!

Loved instrument! again repeat those sounds,

Soothing my sadness, healing sorrow’s wounds.

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