And now Let the deep-mouth'd Organ blow, Hark how the Treble and Bafe In wanton fugues each other chace, And swift divifions run their airy race! Through all the travers'd fcale they fly, In winding labyrinths of harmony; By turns they rife and fall, by turns we live and die. CHORU S. In winding labyrinths of harmony, Through all the travers'd fcale they fly: 30 35. 45 By turns they rife and fall, by turns we live and die. IV. Ye fons of Art, once more renew your ftrains; In loftier verse, and loftier lays, Your voices raife To Mufic's praise ! A nobler fong remains. Sing how the great Creator-God On wings of flaming cherubs rode, To make a world; and round the dark abyfs, Turn'd the golden compaffes, The compaffes in Fate's high ftorehouse found; O World, thy measur'd bound. * Milton. 45 50 Mean Mean while a thousand harps were play'd on high; Be this thy measur'd bound, Was echo'd all around : And now arise, ye Earth and Seas, and Sky ! Arife, ye Earth and Seas, and Sky! V. What can Mufic's power control? Perceiv'd th' enchanting found, It wak'd, and fhook off foul deformity; Nature's fecret chains unbound ; By Heaven's infpiring Mufic made. CHORU S. O wondrous force of Harmony! VI. Divineft Art, whofe fame fhall never ceafe! 55 Thy honour'd voice proclaim'd the Saviour's birth; When Heaven vouchfaf'd to treat with Earth, Mufic was herald of the peace: L 75 Thy Thy voice could beft the joyful tidings tell ;; A God descending from above, To conquer Death and Hell.. VII. There yet remains an hour of fate, When Mufic muft again its charms employ; Shall call the numerous nations under ground. 80% Appear; and fome with grief, and fome with joy, 85. Their final fentence wait. GRAND CHORU S... Then other arts fhall pass away : Proud Architecture fhall in ruins lie,. And Painting fade and die, Nay Earth, and Heaven itfelf, in wafteful fire decay. 90 The world's laft blaze. The tuneful fifters fhall embrace, And praife and fing, and fing and praife, In never-ceafing choirs to all eternity.. 95 APOLLO RECITATIVE. DAPHINE, the beautiful, the coy, Along the winding shore of Peneus flew, Though 'twas a God that did her charms purfue. 5 Awak'd his lyre, and foftly breath'd his amorous pain. The River's echoing banks with pleasure did prelong The fweetly warbled founds, and murmur'd with the fong. 15 L. 2. Daphne. Daphne fled swifter, in defpair, To 'fcape the God's embrace : 20 Father Peneus, hear me, aid me! Let fome fudden change invade me; 25 Fix me rooted on thy fhore. Ceafe, Apollo, to perfuade me; I am Daphne now no more. RECITATIVE. Apollo wondering food to fee The nymph transform'd into a tree. Vain were his lyre, his voice, his tuneful art, 30 35 Nor could th' eternal beams that round his temples fhine, Melt the cold virgin's frozen heart. AIR. Nature alone can Love infpire; Art is vain to move Defire. If Nature once the fair incline, Art is vain to move Defire. 40 A |