Brewer's: Rift in the Lute

(A). A small defect which mars the general result.

Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. It is the little rift within the lute That by-and-by will make the music mute, And eyer widening, slowly silence all.

Tennyson: Merlin and Vivien; Vivien's Song, verses 1, 2.

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