• Thy trivial harp will never please
    Or fill my craving ear;
    Its chords should ring as blows the breeze,
    Free, peremptory, clear.
    No jingling serenader’s art,
    Nor tinkle of piano strings,
    Can make the wild blood start
    In its mystic springs.
    The kingly bard
    Must smite the chords rudely and hard,
    As with hammer or with...