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Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without
To produce music is also in a sense to produce children
But hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.
The still, sad music of humanity.
Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
Soft is the music that would charm forever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
Not Love, not War
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