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I	A
Descend ye Nine descend and sing	B
The breathing instruments inspire	C
Wake into voice each silent string	B
And sweep the sounding lyre	C
In a sadly pleasing strain	D
Let the warbling lute complain	D
Let the loud trumpet sound	E
'Till the roofs all around	E
The shrill echo's rebound	E
While in more lengthen'd notes and slow	F
The deep majestic solemn organs blow	F
Hark the numbers soft and clear	G
Gently steal upon the ear	H
Now louder and yet louder rise	I
And fill with spreading sounds the skies	I
Exulting in triumph now swell the bold notes	J
In broken air trembling the wild music floats	J
'Till by degrees remote and small	K
The strains decay	L
And melt away	L
In a dying dying fall	K
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II	A
By Music minds an equal temper know	F
Nor swell too high nor sink too low	F
If in the breast tumultuous joys arise	I
Music her soft assuasive voice applies	I
Or when the soul is press'd with cares	M
Exalts her in enlivening airs	M
Warriors she fires with animated sounds	N
Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds	O
Melancholy lifts her head	P
Morpheus rouzes from his bed	P
Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes	Q
List'ning Envy drops her snakes	Q
Intestine war no more our Passions wage	R
And giddy Factions hear away their rage	R
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III	A
But when our Country's cause provokes to Arms	S
How martial music ev'ry bosom warms	T
So when the first bold vessel dar'd the seas	U
High on the stern the Thracian rais'd his strain	D
While Argo saw her kindred trees	U
Descend from Pelion to the main	D
Transported demi gods stood round	E
And men grew heroes at the sound	E
Enflam'd with glory's charms	S
Each chief his sev'nfold shield display'd	V
And half unsheath'd the shining blade	V
And seas and rocks and skies rebound	E
To arms to arms to arms	S
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IV	W
But when thro' all th'infernal bounds	N
Which flaming Phlegeton surrounds	N
Love strong as Death the Poet led	P
To the pale nations of the dead	P
What sounds were heard	X
What scenes appear'd	Y
O'er all the dreary coasts	Z
Dreadful gleams	A2
Dismal screams	A2
Fires that glow	F
Shrieks of woe	F
Sullen moans	B2
Hollow groans	B2
And cries of tortur'd ghosts	Z
But hark he strikes the golden lyre	C
And see the tortur'd ghosts respire	C
See shady forms advance	C2
Thy stone O Sysiphus stands still	D2
Ixion rests upon his wheel	E2
And the pale spectres dance	C2
The Furies sink upon their iron beds	F2
And snakes uncurl'd hang list'ning round their heads	F2
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V	W
By the streams that ever flow	F
By the fragrant winds that blow	F
O'er th' Elysian flow'rs	F2
By those happy souls who dwell	G2
In yellow meads of Asphodel	G2
Or Amaranthine bow'rs	F2
By the hero's armed shades	F2
Glitt'ring thro' the gloomy glades	F2
By the youths that dy'd for love	W
Wand'ring in the myrtle grove	W
Restore restore Eurydice to life	W
Oh take the husband or return the wife	W
He sung and hell consented	H2
To hear the Poet's pray'r	C
Stern Proserpine relented	H2
And gave him back the fair	C
Thus song could prevail	G2
O'er death and o'er hell	G2
A conquest how hard and how glorious	F2
Tho' fate had fast bound her	C
With Styx nine times round her	C
Yet music and love were victorious	F2
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VI	W
But soon too soon the lover turns his eyes	F2
Again she falls again she dies she dies	F2
How wilt thou now the fatal sisters move	W
No crime was thine if 'tis no crime to love	W
Now under hanging mountains	F2
Beside the falls of fountains	F2
Or where Hebrus wanders	F2
Rolling in Maeanders	F2
All alone	I2
Unheard unknown	I2
He makes his moan	I2
And calls her ghost	J2
For ever ever ever lost	K2
Now with Furies surrounded	L2
Despairing confounded	H2
He trembles he glows	F2
Amidst Rhodope's snows	F2
See wild as the winds o'er the desart he flies	F2
Hark Haemus resounds with the Bacchanals cries	F2
Ah see he dies	F2
Yet ev'n in death Eurydice he sung	M2
Eurydice still trembled on his tongue	M2
Eurydice the woods	F2
Eurydice the floods	F2
Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung	M2
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VII	W
Music the fiercest grief can charm	N2
And fate's severest rage disarm	N2
Music can soften pain to ease	F2
And make despair and madness please	F2
Our joys below it can improve	W
And antedate the bliss above	W
This the divine Cecilia found	E
And to her Maker's praise confin'd the sound	E
When the full organ joins the tuneful quire	C
Th'immortal pow'rs incline their ear	C
Borne on the swelling notes our souls aspire	C
While solemn airs improve the sacred fire	C
And Angels lean from heav'n to hear	C
Of Orpheus now no more let Poets tell	G2
To bright Cecilia greater pow'r is giv'n	I2
His numbers rais'd a shade from hell	G2
Hers lift the soul to heav'n	I2

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