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Strike the lyre! - ah! the Minstrel is old; / The days of his harping are very nigh told; / Yet Shakespeare, sweet Shakespeare! Thy name shall expire /On his cold quiv'ring lips - Sound the harp! Strike the lyre!'\r\n\r\n'Its music was thine when his harp he first strung, / And thou wert the earliest song that he sung; / Now feeble and trembling his hand sweeps the wire - / Be thine its last note! - Sound the harp! Strike the lyre!'\n\n'I've wander'd where riches and poverty dwell; / With all but the sordid thy name was a spell. / Love, pity, and joy, in each bosom beat higher; / Rage, madness, despair! - Sound the harp! Strike the lyre!'\n\n'The scenes of thy triumphs are pass'd as a dream; / But still flows in beauty, sweet Avon - thy stream. / Still rises majestic that heaven-pointed spire, / Thy temple and tomb! - Sound the harp! strike the lyre!'</i>\r\n","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Portrait print of Mr. William Dowton,\r\n\r\nHand-written lyrics for 'The Old Harper's Song'.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Dowton, William","id":"N11462"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["S.670:1-2017","S.670:2-2017"],"accessionNumberNum":"670","accessionNumberPrefix":"S","accessionYear":2017,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2017-05-02","availableToBook":true}}