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“The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!”
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- Source:
- Human Life.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 78c7df03a935510859f6dfbfd33e92165b823f99ef95280f8675b7f5616a5cae
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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