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Is it some bright garden scene? There, too, hath the minstrel been, Linking words of charmed power With the green leaf and the flower. Is it woman's loveliness? He hath revell’d to excess, Caught all spells that can beguile In dark eye or rosy smile. Is it deed that hath its claim Upon earth's most holy fame, Or those kindly feelings sent But for hearth and home content? Lofty thought, or counsel sage. Seek them in the poet's page; Laurel, laud, and love belong To thee, thou Spirit sweet of Song.