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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426608" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Song For St. Cecilia's Day, At Oxford</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>Cecilia, whose exalted hymns <br>With joy and wonder fill the blest, <br>In choirs of warbling seraphims <br>Known and distinguish'd fom the rest; <br>Attend, harmonious saint, and see <br>Thy vocal sons of harmony; <br>Attend, harmonious saint, and hear our prayers; <br>Enliven all our earthly airs, <br>and, as thou sing'st thy God, teach us to sing of thee: <br>Tune every string and every tongue, <br>Be thou the Muse and subject of our song. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>Let all Cecilia's praise proclaim, <br>Enploy the echo in her name. <br>Hark how the flutes and trumpets raise, <br>At bright Cecilia's name, their lays; <br>The organ labours in her praise. <br>Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace, <br>From every voice the tuneful accents fly, <br>In soaring trebles now it rises high, <br>And now it sinks, and dwells upon the base. <br>Cecilia's name through all the notes we sing, <br>The work of every skilful tongue <br>The sound of every trembling string, <br>The sound and triumph of our song. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.<br>For ever consecrate the day, <br>To music and Cecilia; <br>Music, the greatest good that mortals know, <br>And all of heaven we have below. <br>Music can noble hints impart, <br>Engender fury, kindle love; <br>With unsuspected eloquence can move, <br>And manage all the man with secret art. <br>When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre <br>The streams stand still, the stones admire; <br>The listening savages advance, <br>The world and lamb around him trip <br>The bears in aukward measures leap, <br>And tigers mingle in the dance <br>The moving woods attended as he played <br>And Rhodope was left without a shade. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.<br>Music religious heats inspires, <br>It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, <br>And wings it with sublime desires, <br>And fits it to bespeak the Deity. <br>Th' Almighty listens to a tuneful tongue, <br>And seems well-pleas'd and courted with a song. <br>Soft moving sounds and heavenly airs <br>Give forece to every word, and recommend our prayers <br>When time itself shall be no more, <br>And all things in confusion hurl'd, <br>Music shall then exert its power, <br>And sound survive the ruins of the world: <br>Then saints and angels shall agree <br>In one eternal jubilee: <br>All heaven shall echo with their hymns divine, <br>And God himself with pleasure see <br>The whole creation in a chorus join.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">C H O R U S.<br>Consecrate the place and day, <br>To music and Cecilia Let no rough winds approach, nor dare <br>Invade the hallow'd bounds, <br>Nor rudely shake the tuneful air, <br>Nor spoil the fleeting sounds. <br>Nor mournful sigh nor groan be heard, <br>But gladness dwell on every tongue; <br>Whilst all, with voice and strings prepar'd, <br>Keep u; the loud harmonious song. <br>And imitate the blest above, <br>In joy, and harmony, and love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joseph+Addison">Joseph Addison</a><div class=q>
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Cecilia, whose exalted hymns 
With joy and wonder fill the blest, 
In choirs of warbling seraphims 
Known and distinguish'd fom the rest; 
Attend, harmonious saint, and see 
Thy vocal sons of harmony; 
Attend, harmonious saint, and hear our pra..."></div>
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