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As when in summer-scented days gone by / The court-musicians, dressed in velvets gay / And golden silks, would on their gitterns play / And blend their voices with the strings' love-cry, / So that the princess from her tower on high / Might through the rose-framed window hear their lay, / And make more splendid the resplendent day / By leaning out, her choristers to spy;
So now, with weary voice and violin, / Two court-musicians rend the dusty air. / Their shrill notes pierce the elevated's din, / And thrill a girl's heart with a pleasure rare. / For her has sweeter music never been; / They never saw a princess half so fair.