The Lute-Player Poem by John Bannister Tabb

The Lute-Player



He touched the strings; & lo, the strain-
As waters dimple to the rain-
Spontaneous rose and fell again.


In swaddling clothes or silence bound,
His genius a soul had found,
And wakened it to light and sound.

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