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Songs Set To Music: 21. Set By Mr. De Fesch: Poem by Matthew Prior

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Touch the lyre, touch every string;
Touch it, Orpheus; I will sing
A song which shall immortal be,
Since she I sing's a deity;
A Leonora, whose bless'd birth
Has no relation to this earth.

Analysis of this poem
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