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The Salabue Stradivari. A history and critical description of the famous violin, commonly called "le Messie." Containing many particulars obtained from authentic sources and now published for the first time, 1891
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1TO A STRADIVARI VIOLIN.
3O precious treasury of sounds exquisite,
4 The music of all time within thee sings!
5Old melodies; and quaint strange whisperings
6Of bye-gone songs that linger and invite.
7Earth's cry of pain, heaven's anthems of delight,
8 The hopes and fears of love's imaginings,
9 All found a voice upon thy thrilling strings!
10Thou singest still, with changes infinite,
11The heights and depths of this strange human life
12 With all its sorrows or its ecstasies,
13Its thoughts unuttered, its most voiceless cries;
14 One pure tone rising always through the strife
15Intense, heart-searching. Sorrow in such setting
16Is a sweet dream and a more sweet forgetting.
18F. S.
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