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(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1857. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. A COLLECTION OF ODES ON ST. CECILIA'S
DAY. r APPENDIX. ODE FOE ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 1683, BY CHRISTOPHEB
FI8HBURN. Set to Music by Henry Purcell. ELCOME to all the
pleasures that delight Of ev'ry sense the grateful appetite Hail,
great assembly of Apollo's race Hail to this happy place, This
Musical assembly, that seems to be The ark of universal harmony
Here the deities approve (The God of Music and of Love, ) All the
talents they have lent you, All the blessings they have sent you;
Pleas'd to see what they bestow Live and thrive so well below;
While joys celestial their bright souls invade, To find what great
improvement you have made. Then lift up your voices, those organs
of nature, Those charms to the troubled and amorous creature: The
Power shall divert us a pleasanter way; For Sorrow and Grief Find
from Music relief, And Love its soft charms must obey. Beauty, thou
source of love, And Virtue, thou innocent fire, Made by the Powers
above To temper the heat of desire; Music, that fancy employs In
raptures of innocent flame, We offer with lute and with voice To
Cecilia, Cecilia's bright name: In a concert of voices, while
instruments play, With Music we'll celebrate this holiday; In a
concert of voices we'll sing, 16 Cecilia ODE FOE ST. CECILIA'S DAY,
1683, Author unknown. Composed by Henry Purcell. RAISE, raise the
voice, all instruments obey, Let the sweet lute its softest notes
display, For this is sacred Music's holiday. The God himself says,
he'll be present here, Dress'd in his brightest beams he will
appear, Not to the eye, but to the ravish'd ear. Hark I hear Apollo
cry, "Crown the day with harmony "And let ev'ry gen'rous heart "In
the chorus bear a part." Mark, mark, how readily each pliant string
Prepares itself, and as an offer...
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