English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 492. Echo |
| | | Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
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| 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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