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Watson, Sir William - Lachrymae Musarum - What needs his laurel our ephemeral tears
Identifier
001461
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
What needs his laurel our ephemeral tears,
To save from visitation of decay?
Not in this temporal sunlight, now, that bay
Blooms, nor to perishable mundane ears
Sings he with lips of transitory clay;
For he hath joined the chorus of his peers
In habitations of the perfect day:
His earthly notes a heavenly audience hears,
And more melodious are henceforth the spheres,
Enriched with music stol'n from earth away