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For ever consecrate the day,

To music and Cecilia;

Music, the greatest good that mortals know,

And all of heaven we have below.

Music can noble hints impart,

Engender fury, kindle love;

With unsuspected eloquence can move,

And manage all the man with secret art.

When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre,

The streams stand still, the stones admire;

The listening savages advance,

The wolf and lamb around him trip,

The bears in awkward measures leap,

And tigers mingle in the dance.

The moving woods attended, as he play'd,

And Rhodope was left without a shade.