| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Echo | | By Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | | HOW sweet the answer Echo makes | |
| To music at night, | |
| When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, | |
| And far away, o’er lawns and lakes, | |
| Goes answering light! | 5 |
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| Yet Love hath echoes truer far, | |
| And far more sweet, | |
| Than e’er beneath the moonlight’s star, | |
| Of horn or lute, or soft guitar, | |
| The songs repeat. | 10 |
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| ’Tis when the sigh, in youth sincere, | |
| And only then— | |
| The sigh that’s breathed for one to hear | |
| Is by that one, that only dear, | |
| Breathed back again! | 15 | | | |
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