Poems on various subjects Author:Henry James Pye Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: O D E HARMONY. SET TO MUSIC BY DR. PHILIP HAYES, AND PERFORMED IN THE MUSIC-SCHOOL AT OXFORD. TM MORTAL Harmony! thy heavenly ftrain Coeval grew with... more » fea, and earth, and flues.— What time from chaos'-rude primeval reign The Almighty Fiat bade creation rife, The angelic hoft around applauding ftood. And loud their, golden lyres proclaim'd that all was good.— Thofe Thofe facred lays whofe voice fublime High heaven's eternal manfions hear, Amid the tranfient lapfe of time Shall never meet the human ear, Till, torn the veil of flefh away, Stand to the foul confefs'd the realms of endlefs day. Yet ftreams from that immortal fource, Were not to mortal fenfc denied, On Israel's race with fwelling force Unbounded rum'd the facred tide: , f Judea's palmy groves around . Re-echo to the hallow'd found.— Now to the harp's refponfive firings His plaintive hymn Jessides fings, Now with exulting rapture glows O'er dread Jehovah's proftrate foes, C 4 Isaiah Isaiah now with fiercer fire Strikes loud the bold prophetic wire, And treads, or feems in act to tread, O'er proud Assyria's vanquifli'd head. While now the lay pathetic thrills By Babel's willow-border'd rills, As from Judea's captive train The viflor's taunting voice demands the choral ftrain. But hark !—what lays enchanting found Unroots the foreft from the ground ? By the perfuafive powers fubdu'd Charm'd from the prey the favage brood Attentive Men round. 'Tis he, the firft of Grecia's choir, Tis Orpheus ftrikes the living lyre ! AndAnd fee Alceus' fterner hand Appals pale flavery's trembling band, See rapid Pindar loofely flings His fingers o'er the warbling firings, While, as the drama's potent art Or melts or terrifies the heart, More fighs arife, more forrows f...« less