Soft Musick

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Soft Musick
by Robert Herrick
See: Hesperides Published 1648.


(24.) Soft Musick
 
The mellow touch of musick most doth wound
The soule, when it doth rather sigh, then sound.

(The contemporary spelling:)

SOFT MUSIC

THE mellow touch of music most doth wound
The soul when it doth rather sigh than sound.