StoryTitle("caps", "At a Solemn Musick") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sphear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dead things with inbreath'd sense able to pierce,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And to our high-rais'd phantasie present, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That undisturbéd Song of pure content,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ay sung before the saphire-colour'd throne", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To him that sits theron", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Saintly shout, and solemn Jubily,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the bright Seraphim in burning row ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their loud up-lifted Angel trumpets blow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the Cherubick host in thousand quires", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Touch their immortal Harps of golden wires,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With those just Spirits that wear victorious Palms,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hymns devout and holy Psalms ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing everlastingly;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That we on Earth with undiscording voice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May rightly answer that melodious noise;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As once we did, till disproportion'd sin", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jarr'd against natures chime, and with harsh din", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Broke the fair musick that all creatures made", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In perfect Diapason, whilst they stood", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In first obedience, and their state of good.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O may we soon again renew that Song,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And keep in tune with Heav'n, till God ere long", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To his celestial consort us unite,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To live with him, and sing in endles morn of light.", "") ?>
Poet("John Milton", "1608–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>