Music For The Dying
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
Ye who will help me in my dying pain,
Speak not a word: let all your voices cease.
Let me but hear some soft harmonious strain,
And I shall die at peace.
Music entrances, soothes, and grants relief
From all below by which we are opprest;
I pray you, speak no word unto my grief,
But lull it into rest.
Tired am I of all words, and tired of aught
That may some falsehood from the ear conceal,
Desiring rather sounds which ask no thought,
Which I need only feel:
A melody in whose delicious streams
The soul may sink, and pass without a breath
From fevered fancies into quiet dreams,
From dreaming into death.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD DEDE FGFG |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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