Poems (Clark)/A Fragment

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A FRAGMENT
After the German of Marie Ebner.
Question:—"A little song—what tender spell     Wins human hearts to love it well,     What lives within, I pray you tell?"
Answer:—"There lies therein a cadence sweet,—     Fond words that bid the pulses beat,—     A soul where loving fancies meet."

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