“T is believ'd that this harp which I wake now for thee
Was a siren of old who sung under the sea.”

— Thomas Moore

The Origin of the Harp.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779–1852

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