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What Fairy Like Music.

What fairy like music steals over the sea,
Entrancing the senses with charm'd melody?
'Tis the voice of the mermaid that floats o'er the main,
As she mingles her song with the gondolier's strain!

The winds are all hush'd, and thy waters at rest,
They sleep like the passions in infancy's breast,
'Till storms shall unchain them, from out their dark cave,
And break the repose of the soul and the wave.