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SOFT MUSIC

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

The mellow touch of music most doth wound
The soul, when it doth rather sigh, than sound.




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I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right

• William Butler Yeats



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