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RONDEAU. [Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps]

1 Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps
2 Upon the ocean's trembling tide;
3 Soft as the air, that lightly sweeps
4 Yon sail, that swells in stately pride:
5 Soft as the surge's stealing note,
6 That dies along the distant shores,
7 Or warbled strain, that sinks remote —
8 So soft the sigh my bosom pours!
9 True as the wave to Cynthia's ray,
10 True as the vessel to the breeze,
11 True as the soul to music's sway,
12 Or music to Venetian seas:
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13 Soft as yon silver beams, that sleep
14 Upon the ocean's trembling breast:
15 So soft, so true, fond Love shall weep,
16 So soft, so true, with thee shall rest.

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Title (in Source Edition): RONDEAU. [Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps]
Author: Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)
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Genres: song

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Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816, pp. 63-64. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95] (Page images digitized from a copy held at the National Library of the Netherlands.)

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