Arts & Sciences
Poetry
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Arts & Sciences
Something more than the lilt of the strain,
Something more than the touch of the lute;
For the voice of the minstrel is vain,
If the heart of the minstrel is mute.
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Foote, Lucius Harwood. “Poetry.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/foote_lh/0/.
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Foote, Lucius Harwood. “Poetry.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/foote_lh/0/.
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