 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 ページ
...Fury, frantic indignation, Depth of pains, and height of passion, 40 For the fair, disdainful dame. VI But, oh! what art can teach, What human voice can...wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above. VII Orpheus could lead the savage race; And trees unrooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre:0... | |
 | Nicholas Michael Butler - 2007 - 412 ページ
...and later reset by Handel), refers to Cecilia's Christian legend to explain her triumph over Orpheus: Orpheus could lead the savage race; And trees uprooted...place, Sequacious of the lyre. But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder high'r; When to her organ vocal breath was giv'n, An Angel heard, and straight appear'd,... | |
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But Oh! what art can teach, What human voice can reach The sacred organ's praise? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above. 
