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Let all Cecilia's praise proclaim,

Employ the echo in her name,

Hark how the flutes and trumpets raise,

At bright Cecilia's name, their lays;

The organ labours in her praise.

Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace,

From every voice the tuneful accents fly,

In soaring trebles now it rises high,

And now it sinks, and dwells upon the base.

Cecilia's name through all the notes we sing,

The work of every skilful tongue,

The sound of every trembling string,

The sound and triumph of our song.