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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Lucius HarwoodFoote

635 Poetry

SOMETHING more than the lilt of the strain,

Something more than the touch of the lute;

For the voice of the minstrel is vain,

If the heart of the minstrel is mute.