See, fee!

The mighty power of Harmony!

Behold how foon its charms can chace
Grief and gloom from every face!
How fwift its raptures fly,

And thrill through every foul, and brighten every

eye!

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Proceed, fweet charmer of the ear!

Proceed; and through the mellow flute,

The moving lyre,

And folitary lute,

Melting airs, foft joys infpire:
Airs for drooping Hope to hear,
Melting as a lover's prayer;
Joys to flatter dull Despair,
And foftly footh the amorous fire.

CHORU S.

Melting airs, foft joys inspire:
Airs for drooping Hope to hear,
Melting as a lover's prayer ;
Joys to flatter dull Despair,
And foftly footh the amorous fire.

III.

Now let the sprightly Violin
A louder strain begin;

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And

And now

Let the deep-mouth'd Organ blow,
Swell it high, and fink it low.

Hark! how the Treble and Bafe
In wanton fugues each other chace,
And fwift divifions run their airy race!
Through all the travers'd fcale they fly,
In winding labyrinths of harmony;

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By turns they rife and fall, by turns we live and die.

CHORU S.

In winding labyrinths of harmony,

Through all the travers'd scale they fly:

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By turns they rife and fall, by turns we live and die.

IV.

Ye fons of Art, once more renew your ftrains;

In loftier verfe, and loftier lays,

Your voices raise

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 abyss,

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Turn'd the golden compaffes,

The compafles in Fate's high ftorehouse found;
Thus far extend, he faid; be this

O World, thy measur'd bound.

*Milton.

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Mean while a thousand harps were play'd on high;
Be this thy measur'd hound,

Was echo'd all around :

And now arife, ye Earth and Seas, and Sky!
A thousand voices made reply,

Arife, ye Earth and Seas, and Sky!

V.

What can Mufic's power control?
When Nature's fleeping foul
Perceiv'd th' enchanting found,

It wak'd, and shook off foul deformity,
The mighty melody

Nature's fecret chains unbound;
And Earth arose, and Seas, and Sky.
Aloft expanded spheres were flung,
With fhining luminaries hung;
A vaft Creation stood display'd,
By Heaven's infpiring Mufic made.

CHORU S.

O wondrous force of Harmony!

VI.

Divineft Art, whose fame fhall never cease!

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Thy honour'd voice proclaim'd the Saviour's birth; When Heaven vouchfaf'd to treat with Earth, Mufic was herald of the peace :

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Thy voice could best the joyful tidings tell;

Immortal Mercy! boundless Love!

A God defcending from above,

To conquer Death and Hell.

VII.

There yet remains an hour of fate,

When Mufic must again its charms employ ;

The Trumpet's found

Shall call the numerous nations under ground.
The numerous nations straight

Appear; and fome with grief, and fome with joy, 85 Their final fentence wait.

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Then other arts fhall pass away:

Proud Architecture fhall in ruins lie,

And Painting fade and die,

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Music alone, and Poefy,
Triumphant o'er the flame, fhall fee

The world's last blaze.

The tuneful fifters fhall embrace,

And praife and fing, and fing and praife,

In never-cealing choirs to all eternity.

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AND DAPHNE.

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SET BY MR. GALLIARD.

RECITATIVE.

APHINE, the beautiful, the coy,

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Along the winding fhore of Peneus flew,

To fhun Love's tender, offer'd joy;

Though 'twas a God that did her charms purfue. While thus Apollo, in a moving strain,

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Awak'd his lyre, and foftly breath'd his amorous pain.

AIR.

Fairest mortal! ftay and hear ;
Cannot Love, with Music join'd,
Touch thy unrelenting mind?

Turn thee, leave thy trembling fear;

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Fairest mortal! stay and hear;
Cannot Love, with Music join'd,

Touch thy unrelenting mind?

RECITATIVE.

The River's echoing banks with pleasure did prolong The fweetly warbled sounds, and murmur'd with the

fong.

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