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Music, the Voice of Harmony in Creation [an Anthology of Verse] Selected and Arranged by M.j. Estcourt
Music the Voice of Harmony in Creation Selected and Arranged by Mj Estcourt - an Anthology of Verse Author:Music General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHURCH MUSIC. To meet and in the holy quire breathe up Our sacred hymns, while angels echo to us. And Heaven, delighted with our harmony, Opening her azure curtains, will present us A vision of all the joys we hope and pray for. Shibley. PART VI. CHURCH MUSIC. Milton. UT let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowered roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And stoned windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light, There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced choir below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstacies, And bring all heaven before thine eyes. Latbobe. N exercise, which has been the loved employ- ment of the children of God in all ages -- by the agency of which, the Holy Spirit has deigned toconvey the noblest and most elevated truths -- which is allowed, tacitly by some, confessedly by others, and experimentally by all, to be the most powerful engine to arrest and exalt the feelings -- on whose wings the breathings of thousands ascend now to the throne of the Holy One -- which is declared in Scripture to form the unwearied occupation of Angels and Archangels, Cherubim and Seraphim -- and whose character is determinately fixed in the same Eevelation, as indestructible in its essence, and eternal in its existence. Eev. W. H. Havebgal. jjONG is older than sacrifice; inasmuch as holiness preceded sin. At the immaculate creation of the world, " the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy." It is likely that Adam, supreme ...« less