Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.
That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.
I lived to write, and wrote to live.
The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!