StoryTitle("caps", "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From harmony, from heavenly harmony, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "This universal frame began: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When nature underneath a heap ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Of jarring atoms lay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And could not heave her head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The tuneful voice was heard from high, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4DQ", "", "\"Arise, ye more than dead!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In order to their stations leap, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And Music's power obey.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From harmony, from heavenly harmony, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "This universal frame began: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "From harmony to harmony ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through all the compass of the notes it ran, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The diapason closing full in Man.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What passion cannot Music raise and quell? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "When Jubal struck the chorded shell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His listening brethren stood around, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And, wondering, on their faces fell ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To worship that celestial sound:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Less than a God they thought there could not dwell ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Within the hollow of that shell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "That spoke so sweetly, and so well. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What passion cannot Music raise and quell? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The trumpet's loud clangour", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Excites us to arms, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With shrill notes of anger, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And mortal alarms. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The double double double beat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Of the thundering drum", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Cries Hark! the foes come; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The soft complaining flute, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In dying notes, discovers ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The woes of hopeless lovers, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose dirge is whisper'd by the warbling lute. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sharp violins proclaim ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Their jealous pangs and desperation, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fury, frantic indignation, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Depth of pains, and height of passion,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For the fair, disdainful dame. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "But O, what art can teach, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "What human voice can reach, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "The sacred organ's praise? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Notes inspiring holy love, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Notes that wing their heavenly ways ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To mend the choirs above. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Orpheus could lead the savage race; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And trees unrooted left their place, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sequacious of the lyre;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When to her organ vocal breath was given, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An angel heard, and straight appear'd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Mistaking Earth for Heaven. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", " Grand Chorus", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As from the power of sacred lays", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The spheres began to move, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sung the great Creator's praise ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To all the Blest above; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So when the last and dreadful hour ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This crumbling pageant shall devour, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The trumpet shall be heard on high, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dead shall live, the living die, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Music shall untune the sky!", "") ?>
Poet("John Dryden", "1631–1700") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>