National Lyrics, and Songs for Music/Is there some Spirit sighing

by Felicia Hemans

‡ IS THERE SOME SPIRIT SIGHING.

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Is there some spirit sighing
    With sorrow in the air,
Can weary hearts be dying,
    Vain love repining there?
If not, then how can that wild wail,
    O sad Æolian lyre!
Be drawn forth by the wandering gale,
    From thy deep thrilling wire?

No, no!—thou dost not borrow
    That sadness from the wind,
Nor are those tones of sorrow
    In thee, O harp! enshrined;

But in our own hearts deeply set
    Lies the true quivering lyre,
Whence love, and memory, and regret,
    Wake answers from thy wire.