But song has touch'd my lips with fire,
And made my heart a shrine;
For what, although alloy'd, debased,
Is in itself divine.


Lines of Life - The Venetian Bracelet (1829)


But song has touch'd my lips with fire, And made my heart a shrine; For what, although alloy'd, debased, Is in itself divine.

But song has touch'd my lips with fire, And made my heart a shrine; For what, although alloy'd, debased, Is in itself divine.

But song has touch'd my lips with fire, And made my heart a shrine; For what, although alloy'd, debased, Is in itself divine.

But song has touch'd my lips with fire, And made my heart a shrine; For what, although alloy'd, debased, Is in itself divine.