• The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And, though the sound were parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.

  Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio LXXXIV, Eupheme, part 4, lines 37-40.

  Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet 1573-1637
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1. stroked
2. though
3. parted
4. thence
5. sound
6. still

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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And, though the sound were parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense. by : Ben Jonson

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