The Music of Beauty
 James Nack

To me thy lips are mute, but when I gaze
upon thee in thy perfect loveliness,-- 
No trait that should not be-- no lineament
To jar with the exquisite harmony
of beauty's music, breathing to the eyes,
I pity those who think they pity me;
who drink the tide that gushes from thy lips 
unconscious of its sweats, as if they were 
E'en as I am--and turn their marble eyes 
upon thy loveliness, without the thrill 
that maddens me with joy's delirium. 

James M. Nack was born in 1809 in New York, New York.
In 1827, he became the first deaf American to publish 
a book, with the release of The legend of the Rocks, 
and Other poems, published by E. Conrad. 
He died in 1879.