• From “The Davideis”
    AWAKE, awake, my Lyre!
    And tell thy silent master’s humble tale
    In sounds that may prevail;
    Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:
    Though so exalted she,
    And I so lowly be,
    Tell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

    Hark! how the strings awake:
    And, though the moving hand approach not near,...