...Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank hi tumult to a lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult...It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight...

...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight...

...poet's privilege to make music itself twenty times more musical,— to give us the sentiment of a sound. A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw; It...maid, And on her dulcimer she played Singing of Mount Aborah. Here is a picture, a beautiful tune, and a sweetsounding name of a musical instrument, of which...

...NOTES. 199 to make music itself twenty times more musical, — to give us the sentiment of a sound. A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ;...maid, And on her dulcimer she played Singing of Mount Aborah. Here is a picture, a beautiful tune, and a sweetsounding name of a musical instrument, of which...

...woes, That saints will aid if men will call, For the blue sky bends over all." THE ABYSSINIAN MAID. " A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw :...maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Arbora. Could I revive within me Her sympathy and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That...

...217. We cannot help thinking, that Mr. Moore had Mr. Coleridge's Abyssinian maid in his eye : — ' A damsel with a dulcimer, In a vision once I saw ;...her dulcimer she played. Singing of Mount Abora.' Mr. Moore's is a pleasing picture, and it is certainly not a, copy. Still we cannot help thinking,...

...miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vis'on once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she played, Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music...

...from her bosom, as she followed her party to exhibit in another quarter of the fair. CHAPTER II. She was an Abyssinian maid ; And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. COLERIDGE. As the Count sat over his flask of Rhenish, after his solitary dinner, he was surprised...

...fountain and the caves. It was « miracle* of rare device, A sunny pleaMira-dome with caves of ice ! ame, And I knew it was the same Which had kindled lo wa* an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she playM, Singing of Mount Ahora. Could I revive within...

...Coleridge's Kubla Khan : — " It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome, with caves of ice! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw :...symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win mef That with music loud and long, /would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of...