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R. J. T. JEFFERSON.

Ye that have common music with the spheres,
With each soft-singing orb and warbling bird,
And with the sounding sea,
And soughing of the wind!


When little songsters pour their melting lays,
How sweetly do your bird-like warblings rise;
But, in the hush of night,
More earnest tones ye raise.


The sun shall kiss you with his golden beams,
The moon with silver light shall crown you fair;
Sing on, melodious streams,
Sweet music lightens care!

R. J. T. Jefferson.