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The organ proclamant of that great spirit OF harmony is widely open laia In all its depths ; and we , intent to hear it , Stand mutely , at its awful peace dismay'd ; The whilst a vision of those magic fingers Which there create that universe of sound ,
In shadowy light upon the silence lingers ; And a dream'd music floats in power around ! So were it , if the orb'd immensity Of space lay steep ' d in rnyless quietness ; ThtJ Power withdrawn which makes its harmony Of l » tfht and ( notion !—thence not felt the less :
A im ^ ht from that dread absence should an we , And force us the great presence recognise ! * W . Thift is not an overcharged picture of the condition of some of the mechanica o £ Sfctf field . Jiut tha Hom « of Taste in within tba reach of thousands of them . TaacU U »^ m while y *> t there is time , to appreciate it ; and they will uiibreadtax themselves . t Oh , that I oould express in rhyme tlii » sentiment as it came , clothed in beautjr and holiness , from the lips of Dr . Knight , at our last Cutlers' . Feast ,
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No . VIII . You seek the home of taste , and find The proud mechanic there , Rich as a king , and less a slave ,
Thron'd in his elbow chair Or on his sofa , reading" Locke , Beside his open door !*
Why start ? why envy worth like his The carpet on his floor ? You seek the home of sluttery ; Jt 9 John at home ? you say ; " No , Sir , he ' s at the * Sportsman ' s Arms ' ;
The dog-fight * 8 o ' er the way . " Oh , lift the workman ' s heart and mind
Above low sensual sin ! Give him a home ! the home of taste Outbid the House of Gin If Oh , give him taste ! it is the link Which binds us to the
skies—A bridge of rainbows , thrown across The gnlph of tears and sighs ; Or like a widower ' s little one , An aneel in a child , That leads him to her mother ' 6 chair , And shows him how she smiTd . E . E .
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92 The Piano-Forte .
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THE PIANO-FORTE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/28/
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