Poems on Several Occasions With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures |
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Now let the sprightly ViolinA louder Strain begin;
And now
Let the deep-mouth'd Organ blow,
Swell it high, and sink it low.
Hark!—how the Treble and Bass
In wanton Fuge's each other chace,
And swift Divisions run their airy Race!
Thro' all the travers'd Scale they fly,
In winding Labyrinths of Harmony;
By turns they rise and fall, by turns we live and die.
CHORUS.
In winding Labyrinths of Harmony,Thro' all the travers'd Scale they fly;
By turns they rise and fall, by turns we live and die.
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