CHORDS.



         Swoon down, 0 shadowy hosts,
         0 multitude ghosts,
Of the moonlight and starlight begotten !-Then swept
Whispers that sighed to me, sorrows that stealthily hov-
    ered,
Laughters with lips that were mist. And murmurings
    crept
On toward me ftet that were glow; and faces uncovered,
         Radiar t and crystalline clear,
In tortuous, sinuous swirl of vapory pearl,
        Waned near and more near.
Flashed faster a spiral of shapes and of shadows still
    faster,
On in a whirl of unutterable beauties by music expired,
        That lived and desired,-
Born births of the brain of a rhapsody-reveling master;
        /And mine eyes, with their beauties infired,
Smiled scorn on dark Death and Disaster.



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