Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.
To the HarpMichael Drayton (15631631)
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Struck by the skilful bard
It strongly to awake,
But it the Internals scared
And made Olympus quake.
Whose sounds with fiery wings
Drove fiends from their abode,
Touched by the best of kings,
That sung the holy ode.
And it in Hebrus threw,
Such sounds yet forth it sent,
The banks to weep that drew
As down the stream it went.
So anciently we sung
To it, that now scarce known
If first it did belong
To Greece, or if our own.
With gore on altars rude
With sacrifices crowned
In hollow woods bedewed,
Adored the trembling sound.