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A NEGLECTED HARP.

O hushed and shrouded room!
  O silence that enchains!
O me—of many melodies
      The cold and voiceless tomb;
What sweet impassioned strains,
What fair unearthly things,
Sealed up in frozen cadences,
Are aching in my strings!