{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/arthur/art063.htm","path":"neu/arthur/art063.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/arthur/art063.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends/Sagas\u00a0\n England\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n An Arthurian Miscellany\n MERLIN'S SONG\n by\n RALPH WALDO EMERSON\n \n \n Of Merlin wise I learned a song,--\n Sing it low, or sing it loud,\n It is mightier than the strong,\n And punishes the proud.\n I sing it to the surging crowd,--\n Good men it will calm and cheer,\n Bad men it will chain and cage.\n In the heart of the music peals a strain\n Which only angels hear;\n Whether it waken joy or rage,\n Hushed myriads hark in vain,\n Yet they who hear it shed their age,\n And take their youth again.\n \n \n \n Next: The Love-song of Tristram and Iseult, by Cyril Emra [1905]","title":"Arthurian Miscellany: Merlin's Song, by Ralph Waldo Emerson [1846]","type":"page"}