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- 0:01Speaker 1: The Dying Swan by Northern Lakes sings its wild death song,
- 0:07Speaker 1: sweet and clear, and as the solemn music breaks o'er
- 0:11Speaker 1: hill and glen, dissolves in air. Thus musical thy soft
- 0:17Speaker 1: voice came, thus trembled on thy tongue, my name. Like
- 0:23Speaker 1: sunburst through the ebon cloud which veils the solemn midnight sky,
- 0:29Speaker 1: piercing cold evening sable shroud, thus came the first glance
- 0:34Speaker 1: of that eye. But like the adamantine rock, my spirit
- 0:39Speaker 1: met and braved the shock. Let memory the boy recall
- 0:45Speaker 1: who laid his heart upon thy shrine. When far away
- 0:49Speaker 1: his footsteps fall, think that he deemed thy charms divine.
- 0:55Speaker 1: A victim on love's altar slain, by witching eyes which
- 1:00Speaker 1: looked disdain. Tamerlane