AMPHION, singing 'neath Boeotian skies,
Saw Theban walls in state before him rise;
His strains the rocks hard-hearted so beguiled
That they themselves in lofty order piled.
Should WAGNER try upon the hills alone
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To sound the melancholy saxophone,
And blare dim discords to the hills sublime,
He 'd bring the crack of doom before its time.
II.Sad Orpheus of the sweet-toned lyre, once weeping
For his dead wife, went down to Hades grim
To seek her; and the woods and wild beasts leaping
At the wild music followed after him;
The God wept softly at the melody,
And, melting, gave him back Eurydice.
If WAGNER lost his wife, and went to Hades
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