My Gentle Harp chords by John McDermott

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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My gentle heart,
once more I waken,
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The sweetness of thy slumbering strain.
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In tears our last farewell was taken,
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And now in tears we meet     again
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No light of joy hath o 'er thee broken
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But like those harps whose heavenly skill
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Of slavery dark as thine hath spoken,
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Thou hang'st upon the willows
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still.
And yet since last I called, resounded
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An hour of peace and triumph came
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And many an ardent bosom bounded
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With hopes that now are turned to shame
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Yet even then, while peace was singing
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Her halcyon song  o 'er land and sea,
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Though joy and hope to others bring,
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She only brought new tears to
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thee.
Then who can ask for notes of pleasure?
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Or my dropping a harp from
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chords like thine?
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Alas, the lark's gay morning measure,
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As ill would soot the swan's decline!
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Or how shall I,
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O love who blessed thee,
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Invoke thy breath for
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freedom's strains,
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When even the reeds in
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which I dress thee
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Are sadly mixed, half -flowers,
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half -chains.
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But come, if ye by frame can borrow,
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One breath of joy, oh, breathe for me
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And show the world in
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chains and sorrow
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How sweet thy music still can be,
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How gaily even mid gloam's
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surrounding,
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Thou yet canst wake at
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pleasure's thrill,
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Like men on's broken image sounding,
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Mid -desolation, tuneful still.