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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
18 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 405. See the scan on archive.org.
1Yet b'ing a stranger, he's enlarged,
2While his comrade that did not hurt
3Is clapp'd up fast in prison for't;
4So Justice, while she winks at crimes,
5Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
7GEORGE HERBERT'S REFERENCES TO MUSIC.
9George Herbert, poet and divine, said of music,
10"That it did relieve his drooping spirits, compose
11his distracted thoughts, and raised his weary soul so
12far above earth, that it gave him an earnest of
13the joys of heaven before he possessed them."
14His worthy biographer, Isaac Walton, tells us—
15"His chiefest recreation was music, in which
16heavenly art he was a most excellent master, and
17did himself compose many divine hymns and
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