The Music of Pyramus and Thisbe
Pyramus and Thisbe were lovers, but their parents forbade it. They had to converse by signs
and glances. They discovered a crack in the wall between their two houses. It afforded a
passage to the voice and they exchanged tender messages. *
(tetrameter)
I doubt this changed spot the same
Where once our sweet white mulberry grew
I doubt the fields can feel the sun
Nor taste the early morning dew
The wall between is thick and fast
My ears seem deaf and young love past
Yet lips must say that if a crack
There be let loving words abound
That as no touch or glance exists
My soul might revel in a sound
*Bullfinch Mythology
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