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QlprU 4. 
REEDS. — Musical Voice. 
Her voice is like the warble of a bird, 
So soft, so sweet, so delicately clear, 
That finer, simpler music ne’er was heard ; 
The sort of sound we echo with a tear, 
Without knowing why, — an overpowering tone, 
Whose melody descends, as from a throne. 
Oh, that I were 
The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, 
Born and expiring with the blest tone that made me ! 
Byron. 
April 5. 
MOUSE-EAR CIIICKWEED. — Simplicity. 
Sweet are her eyes as the fairy flax, 
Her cheeks like the dawn of day, 
And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, 
That ope in the month of May ! 
Longfellow. 
