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164 of the Finnish Olympus, the harmonies of which no mortal hand could awaken, but which, "when the god himself touched the strings, accompanying it with his voice, caused the birds of the air, the beasts of the field and the fishes of the sea to listen attentively, while even Wäinämöinen was himself moved to tears which fell like pearls down his robe." With the grouping of many weird and beautiful fancies, Longfellow, in "The Tales of a Wayside Inn," describes his Musician: