It is the little rift within the lute,
That by and by will make the music mute.
Source: Idylls of the King, `Merlin and Vivien', 388
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (Aug 6 1809-1892), English poet; He was the Poet Laureate, 1850-92 who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 and Idylls of the King, 1885.